Quotes About Maneuvering

Odysseus had told me once that half of a duel is maneuvering around the sun, trying to get the light to stab at your enemy's eyes. But I was the blood of Helios, and no light could blind me.

The player always ends up played. When you attempt to play the one who actually cares about you, you're actually playing yourself.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Los viles aduladores que se arrastran en las cortes sobre la alfombra de los poderosos pueden, al principio

Manipulative coping, however, is an unproductive cycle.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

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

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The sociopath sees all laws and expectations as games to be played.

Seduction, marginalization, diversion, and attack all serve a function.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

He was a walking cut corner, a thumb on the scale of American history. The

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

They're going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,' the coach was saying. 'They're going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they're going to pile it on thick…

As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House. It was a 1970s video game, the white ball pinging back and forth in the black triangle.

In politics, the smart move is not to say no and to know how to finesse yes.

It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself." —Adolf Hitler