Nick Harkaway Quotes

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

I can't control everybody's mind.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

To advise is not to compel.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.

Children have their own mind.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

Drive-Bys want you to think that Donald Trump doesn't have a mind of his own. He's either doing what Steve Bannon tells him to do or he's either doing what Jared Kushner tells him to do or he's then doing what Gary Cohn tells him to do, and then sometimes he might do what Ivanka Trump tells him to do. They want you to believe he doesn't have a mind of his own, that he actually believes the last thing somebody tells him. I don't think that's how it happened.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.