Quotes About Maneuver

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

we concentrate our army into an enormous fist. The very fact that such a fist exists will prevent the enemy from dispersing his forces in a war of manoeuvre, he will not be given any opportunity to loosen the close 'interlinking' of his army; on the contrary, he will be forced to concentrate, to go over to the defence on as restricted an area as possible. In other words, we get conditions of a frontal war, we force the enemy to accept our view of the character of the war.

Sometimes," Llry told Rowan, "to feign an opening, is to invite your opponent's disaster.

Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.

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Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; and when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

assume I'll be driving in the opposite direction from the decoy pickup truck," said Vargas.

It's a false flag operation, and they've been successful.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

If there is one classic maneuver played by large multinationals and shrewd dealers in all fields to take advantage of anxious adversaries, this is the one. Build positive expectations with pie-in-the-sky numbers, then start in with the ifs, ands, and buts.

Wiggle is kinda like a word that I feel like I coined. It's being able to maneuver in and out, around defenders with the basketball.

more to curry favor than to educate.

Is that what you lose over time? Not so much a loss of affection, as a slow clouding of your own sight? We became less and less focal points for each other, and more like pieces of furniture to maneuver around in the course of everyday life.

the overriding reason for his attachment to Cleveland: It was the hub of so many transportation networks that he had tremendous room to maneuver in freight negotiations.

To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

One other factor tempted the railroads to come to terms with Rockefeller: In a farsighted tactical maneuver, he had begun to accumulate hundreds of tank cars, which would be in perpetually short supply.

wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

crow is more agile so it can turn and maneuver more

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

the two men agreed on a plan that employed speed and surprise to turn the tables on Antony and trap him.