Quotes About Subtlety

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

I prefer being minimalistic with my look.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Art is all in the details.

I have a feeling that he was a far more complicated man than he seemed to be," wrote Don Whitehead, "a man who shaped events with such subtlety that he left others thinking that they were the architects of those events. And he was satisfied to leave it that way.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

Parte de su fenomenal éxito se debía a su infatigable capacidad de trabajo y compromiso, pero no todo. Según los cronistas de aquel triunfo, Feldman nunca presionaba para lograr una venta a los potenciales clientes que se mostraban reticentes. En lugar de ello, introducía un toque sutil (y astuto) en su discurso que los guiaba con suavidad hacia esa decisión.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

Follow David's example: say or do something that can be read in more than one way, that may be superficially polite but that could also indicate a slight coolness on your part or be seen as a subtle insult. A friend may wonder but will let it pass. The secret enemy, though, will react with anger.

Control is an elusive phenomenon. Often, the harder you tug at people, the less control you have over them. Leadership is more than just barking out orders; it takes subtlety.

entre más se relaje el objetivo, más fácil te será inclinarlo a tu voluntad.

When your own reputation is solid, use subtler tactics, such as satire and ridicule, to weaken your opponent while making you out as a charming rogue.

Never make it too clear what you are doing or about to do.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

En todas las esferas de la vida, nunca des la impresión de que buscas algo; esto producirá una resistencia que nunca someterás.

Martyrdom serves no purpose—better to live on in an oppressive world, even to thrive in it. Meanwhile find a way to express your ideas subtly for those who understand you. Laying your pearls before swine will only bring you trouble.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. —Albert Camus

A nothing that said everything.