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Quotes About Maneuver

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?
~ Wyndham Lewis
To a man holding the puppet strings, the whole world is their Pinocchio.
~ David S. Brody
We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)
~ David Weber
utiliza la idea de tu contrincante para conseguir lo que deseas. Practica el jiu-jitsu retórico empleando los movimientos de tu rival para hacerle perder el equilibrio.
~ Jay Heinrichs
Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
~ Jean Anouilh
This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.
~ Alfred Lansing
ingeniously left a forty-mile gap in the
~ Alistair Horne
So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied
~ Ally Carter
Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.
~ Alphonso Lingis
I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I'm able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.
~ Daniel Negreanu
Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.
~ Sun Tzu
I'm not really into tactics.
~ Steve Bruce
I hate when people use my tactics against me.
~ Sean Hannity
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
~ Mary Beard
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
~ Calvin Trillin
In here you're no one, cheerleader. You remember that. You can't even walk unless I say so. If they let me, I could drain you like a bathtub and watch you die. So how about a cheer for me? Because in here, I'm the star quarterback. -Nichelle
~ Richard Paul Evans
Pragmatism had shaded into the morality of the ballot box, a morality in which nothing matters but victory and any maneuver that leads to victory is justified—into a morality that is amorality.
~ Robert A. Caro
They want to use him, make him geek.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
our strategy must be to antagonize them into striking the first blow, the classic 'Pearl Harbor' maneuver of game theory, a great advantage in Weltpolitick.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Sun Tzu, said the best commander is the one who wins while avoiding battle. The intent is to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis, and bring about collapse of the adversary by generating confusion, disorder, panic, and chaos. Boyd said war is organic and compared his technique to clipping the nerves, muscles, and tendons of an enemy, thus reducing him to jelly.
~ Robert Coram
Pike knew how to remain calm during the chaos of combat. He had been trained for it, and had survived withering fire in overwhelming combat situations dozens of times. He had learned to keep his head by thinking about one thing at a time. Access the situation, plan a single action, then commit yourself to that action. A war is won one maneuver at a time. Pike
~ Robert Crais
These programs are like a finishing school. They teach you how to put the squeeze on people.
~ Robert D. Hare
if no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them.
~ Robert Greene