Quotes About Maneuver

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

I made a lot of big threes throughout my career, but it was the 3-point shot that allowed me to maneuver inside the paint, post-up, mid-range game and so forth.

It is not an exaggeration to identify the flight of the radical left to 'antifascism' as the most successful maneuver of language politics in the twentieth century.

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two - to fix your opponent's expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

The moral is to not set yourself goals which don't leave you any freedom to maneuver.

Sometimes he lashed out just to drive home a point. If he thought it would teach us a lesson, he'd blow some minor grievance out of all proportion, and even as he was yelling he might wink at someone nearby. Then, ten minutes later, he'd be fine, leaving us bewildered and emotionally depleted. There were also times he would leave us emotionally uplifted. He was truly a master at manipulating people.

Many strategies are not strategies in the sense of strategies.

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I have already bent time to my will.

He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

We know through advances in behavioral economics and marketing that one can manipulate perceptions and beliefs.

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.

He made a series of consecutive right turns, a time-tested countersurveillance maneuver

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

The fighter's winged-scarab fuselage described a tight Immelmann that brought it squarely into the last target's rear aspect.

Because of the various sensory protuberances with which the robot was festooned, it couldn't maneuver inside the towel, and it just twitched back and forth without being able to turn and face its captor.

All warfare is based on deception.

you twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success.