Seduced Quotes. QuotesGram

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.