Julie Garwood Quotes

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.