George Ayittey

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

Ghanaian Economist

Loretta Napoleoni

I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma.

Italian Journalist

Gary Weiss

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

American Journalist

Wyndham Lewis

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

English Author

Dinesh D'Souza

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Indian Author

Matthew McConaughey

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

American Actor

Joey Skaggs

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

American Celebrity

Kim Harrison

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

American Author

J. J. Cale

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

American Musician

Wilbur Smith

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

Novelist

Used to describe someone's actions as deceitful, implies disapproval of their behavior.

Negative Connotation

Denotes an ability to affect actions or decisions indirectly, often without being noticed.

Subtle Influence

Involves exploiting emotional relationships, resulting in potential harm or control.

Emotional Impact

Refers to machines that interact with objects, common in industrial settings.

Technical Machinery

Indicates high accuracy and finely-tuned movement controlled by the manipulator.

Precision Control

Defines a manipulator that operators use at a distance, especially for safety.

Remote Operation

 something that was relegated to the internet. But there's really no separation anymore between the internet and everything else. This is an ad that ran on multiple TV stations during the 2018 congressional elections, alleging with very little evidence that one of the candidates was in the pocket of international manipulator George Soros,

Inside the bizarre world...

 we knew that we might be able to make a horse, which could be ridden. So we made a model. This is a cardboard model, a little bit smaller than the hyena. You'll notice that the legs are plywood legs and the canoe structure is still there. And the two manipulators are inside. But we didn't realize at the time

The genius puppetry...

 about five meters off the seafloor. And if we do that, we can get maps that are one-meter resolution down thousands of meters. Here is a remotely-operated vehicle, a research-grade vehicle. You can see an array of big lights on the top. There are high-definition cameras, manipulator arms,

The secrets I find on...

 with this type of module. We decided that we were going to have a four-legged crawler turn into a little dog and make small gaits. With the same module, we can actually make it do something a manipulator, a typical, classical robotic task. So with a manipulator, it can pick up an object.

Origami robots that...

 transmission join the main assembly line from computer-controlled torque guns that screw the individual parts together to heavy lifting manipulators that make moving the heavy parts easy this line comes packed with high-tech help even the silicon dispenser is automated with

Harley Motorcycles PIPE...

 I'm holding this clicker in my hand; I'm not even looking at it, and I can manipulate it without any problem. But even more important, I can move my body while I hold the manipulator, the clicker, and stabilize and coordinate my body, and I can even walk around.

Meet Spot, the robot dog...

 as well as 17 wildlife crimes. CARNEY ANNE In the words of the judge at Joe Exotic's sentencing, Joe is a master manipulator who is engaged in, quote, "systematic trafficking" of tigers and other big cats. Yet, critics of "Tiger King"

Joe Exotic and the Tiger...

 it seems that lying may be as old as language itself if our little manipulator is spotted with his egg he's in big trouble this sort of deception has been noticed in several species it shows they imagine things when they're

Monkey's Bluff PIPE Clever...

 Manipulation is not an oddity. It is a critical and common part of the world around us, and scientists have now found hundreds of examples of such manipulators, and more excitingly, they're starting to understand

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

 to accept that it's over. Otherwise, your mind will feed on your hope and set you back. Hope can be incredibly destructive when your heart is broken. Heartbreak is a master manipulator.

Manipulator