Quotes About Maneuvering

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

viewing strategy as "the art of making use of time and space";

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

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Truly that aspect of cunning is illustrious and far removed from all reproach, whose deeds are called by the Greek expression strategemata, because they can scarcely be suitably expressed by a (single Latin) term.

the art of creating power

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.

You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws.

Every thing he did was right. Every thing he said was clever. If their evenings at the park included cards, he cheated himself and all the rest of the party to get her a good hand.

He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.

When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency.

the legal theorist Carl Schmitt, explained in clear language the essence of fascist governance. The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the exception. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.

salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one.

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

He does so by deceit.

His exterior appearance was polished, and yet it did little to hide the real man inside from anyone who did business with him, the rough and violent ex-cop who had found a much better life as a private detective maneuvering in and out of the countless cracks that existed between laws. I