Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction. — Amishi Jha Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Keep interactions as short as possible; you can be cordial, but do not engage. Narcissists are master provocateurs who will subject you… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics… — Rick Scarborough Copy Share Image
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it… — Inez Milholland Copy Share Image
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men,… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Start healing those wounds and understand that your insecurities were manufactured. You were not yourself—you were manipulated. The real you is kind,… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They… — Kathy Change Copy Share Image
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt Copy Share Image
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
