Quotes About Maneuver

El que controla el pasado, controla también el futuro. El que controla el presente, controla el pasado.

Quien controla el pasado controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente controla el pasado.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" repeated Winston obediently.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to... (1995)

I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. How, then, could he conceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered

strategy ceases to be strategy when it is reduced to ritual.

Do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to do

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

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.

She swore loudly and slammed the rig into reverse, steering it round the garage,

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

One of the oldest gambits in intelligence is "the dangle," when one side appears to make a play for someone on the other, lures him into complicity, and gains his trust, before exposing him.

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

Manipulating the manipulatable?

There was indeed a vast conspiracy to maneuver an essentially isolationist country into war. There was also a dedicated conspiracy to destroy Lindbergh's reputation as hero.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

A good way to get inside an opponent's head in a water balloon fight: catch a balloon that is thrown at you, untie it, and then drink it.

Battles in Micronesia were so pitched and bloody that Gilbertese warriors would outfit themselves head to foot with doormat-thick armor fashioned from coconut hulls. On top of the significant humiliation of making one's entrance onto the battlefield looking like an enormous macramé planter was the fact that the armor was so bulky that it required the assistance of several squires to help maneuver you.

La prima mossa è quasi sempre un trucco, è la seconda la più efficace... l'importante è colpire il bersaglio. 

To truly win a war, attack the enemy's plan.