Manipulating Quotes
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That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?
john hall— P. 413. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.
randal marlin— Preface, p. 9
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm— As quoted in The New York Times (5 January 1964)
That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?
— P. 413. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?
— John Hall, p. 413. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Cybernetics is the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence.
— Gordon Pask (1966) The Cybernetics of Human Performance and Learning. Cited in: George J. Klír (2001) Facets of Systems Science. p.429
Without real experience in using the computer to get useful results the computer science major is apt to know all about the marvelous tool except how to use it. Such a person is a mere technician, skilled in manipulating the tool but with little sense of how and when to use it for its basic purposes.
— Richard Hamming, 1968 Turing Award lecture, Journal of the ACM 16 (1), January 1969, p.6
"Just as soon as the colored boys found out that a science had been developed for manipulating the bones they all wanted to take it up."
— Doctors and Specialists, Morris Fishbein, M.D., Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine; Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, Indianapolis, IN. pp 114-115
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence , which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Erich Fromm— The Sane Society, Open Road Media, 26-Mar-2013, p.74
