Quotes About Maneuvering

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

And remember this: whenever possible, don't fight openly with your enemy. Let them think they've won—and then strike when least expected.

Yes, I've learned a few things along the way, though now that I'm neither man nor woman they can't do me any good. But here's one that may be of use to you: the power of a man is like a bull's charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won't get you what you want.

Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering

ofrecerles elevados edificios, graneros y esclavos para enviciar sus barrigas […] y, para los que iban a rendirse, el emperador [debería] favorecerlos haciéndoles los honores con una recepción imperial en la que el propio emperador les sirviera vino y comida para enviciar su mente. Estos son los que podrían denominarse los cinco cebos.27

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

The devious manipulation of sheep, otherwise known as politics.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering"—which is officer talk for running

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you will find on the pillow.

Toda la gente que se propone enderezar al mundo lo que en realidad quiere es enchuecarlo a su medida. No hay nada más torcido que un enderezador.

But over and beyond all that can be written on the subject—inventiveness is a personal matter, beyond all formulas—the true general must be able to take in, deceive, decoy, delude his adversary at every turn, as the particular occasion demands. In fact, there is no instrument of war more cunning than chicanery;

The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to block him or oppose him. If you reach out to grip him he will not be there, he will have ridden twenty miles while you are pulling your boots on.

You like it, don't you? Playing games with us? Pulling our strings and seeing how we dance?

I feel helpless, as though he's herding me around a chessboard to checkmate.

It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them.

didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person you're trying to manipulate nowhere to go.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.