Quotes About Maneuvering

Scary as it seems, the best tactic for swerving is to stay off the brakes and hold the throttle steady, conserving all of the available traction for steering.

The delayed apex line maximizes traction, helps guide you away from potential collisions, and gives you a better view around blind turns. If you like those priorities, consider adopting the trendy delayed apex line yourself.

The delayed-apex line maximizes traction, helps guide you away from potential collisions, and gives you a better view around blind turns. If you like those advantages, adopt the delayed-apex line yourself.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

They're controlling.

Când ai de gând s? ataci, trebuie s?-l faci pe duÈ™manul t?u s? cread? c? ai mai puÈ›ine forÈ›e decât ai în realitate, dar când te aperi trebuie s?-l faci s? cread? c? ai mai multe. Asta e regula, deÈ™i uneori succesul vine când încalci regula...

She's using me. And I like it.

You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

El presidente Wilson dice que un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.