Quotes About Maneuvering

We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more

This was no game of thrones where generals sacrificed and maneuvered on the backs of their soldiers; this was the most primal sort of conflict—Odin's weather, the red chaos of slaughter—where men stood breast-to-breast and shield-to-shield, and dealt the same blows they took in kind.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid.

Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions? -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Hmmm. Okay.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

There is no gambling like politics.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" while looking for a bigger stick.

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.

During weightlessness, many of the letters strayed from the boxes, indicating that pilots might experience difficulties maneuvering their planes and doing crossword puzzles during air battles. The following

Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires...

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

In the hands of the shrewd and the ruthless, chaos had proven a gift.

Sun Tsu: When strong, feign weakness. When weak, feign strength.

You start slow. You find the subject's limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make it feel it's his choice.

The key was to exploit contradictory British and French objectives. The BEF's priority was to hold on to the French ports through which its manpower and resupply flowed. The French saw Paris as the keystone holding up their nation. In effect, the two Allies' priorities pointed in opposite directions, one toward the sea, the other toward the French heartland.

I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

manipulatives

If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.

The dumb fox knows that the less she criticizes, the better. Which is why she doesn't nag. Instead, she maneuvers.

Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man.