Quotes About Maneuvering

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock.

In general you must either pamper people or destroy them; harm them just a little and they'll hit back; harm them seriously and they won't be able to. So if you're going to do people harm, make sure you needn't worry about their reaction.

O maior remédio utilizado contra os desígnios do inimigo é fazeres voluntariamente aquilo que ele planeja que tu faças à força, porque fazendo-o de forma voluntária, tu o fazes com ordem e para vantagem tua e desvantagem dele; se o fizesses à força, seria então a tua ruína.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica.

Întreaga art? a r?zboiului este bazat? pe înÈ™el?torie.

A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.

Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.

Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.

Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

The thing worth noting with manipulators is, curiously, once you realize what they are, they become strikingly easy to manipulate. —

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.