Quotes About Maneuver

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

My left foot is not the strongest but I can be clever by going round somebody or using the right side of my foot.

You can be dominant without the ball by trying to move the opposition where you want them to go.

Third Generation war, also a product of World War I, was developed by the German Army and is commonly known as blitzkrieg, or maneuver warfare.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

In an extraordinarily offensive maneuver, a number of mutual-fund companies continued to charge 12b-1 fees even after the management company closed funds to new investors.

John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis

Nearly all the battles which are regarded as masterpieces of the military art, from which have been derived the foundation of states and the fame of commanders, have been battles of manœuvre in which very often the enemy has found himself defeated by some novel expedient or device, some queer, swift, unexpected thrust or stratagem. In many such battles the losses of the victors have been small.

Toda la gente que se propone enderezar al mundo lo que en realidad quiere es enchuecarlo a su medida. No hay nada más torcido que un enderezador.

your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously;

Perception is reality. Media is omnipresent. Therefore, he who controls the media controls perception, and therefore controls reality TV, and therefore controls reality. Take

A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.

You will need me to sweet-talk the door.