You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies’ heart. Mind and arrow must become one.
One thing I designed, I’ve done a lot of work on improving kosher slaughter. They need to make a head holding device that would go on the end of the conveyer. A normal kosher head holding device, the thing is like a cradle that lifts up the head. If I have it on the end of a conveyer, how do I make this work?
So after that I had a new rule. If I’m hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I’m in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I’ll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that’s a rule I still follow today.
Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared. Victory over your enemies will bring you a more lasting popularity.
Leaders have always found it useful to have an enemy at their gates in times of trouble, distracting the public from their difficulties. In using your enemies to rally your troops, polarize them as far as possible: they will fight the more fiercely when they feel a little hatred. So exaggerate the differences between you and the enemy – draw the lines clearly.
What you want in warfare is room to maneuver. Tight corners spell death. Having enemies gives you options. You can play them off against each other, make one a friend as a way of attacking the other, on and on.
So I’d gotten rid of that negativity and I’d show, “Well, here’s something done right. Here’s the mistake, but here’s how to fix the mistake.
The more we lose ourselves in predigested theories and past experiences, the more inappropriate and delusional our response.
Never neglect the way you arrange things visually. Factors like color, for example, have enormous symbolic resonance.
Making a show of one’s weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power.
Power is a game. This cannot be repeated too often!
You destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.
We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality.
Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will attack.
The problem is, when things go verbal, you drop out the detail.
The first step toward becoming rational is to understand our fundamental irrationality. There are two factors that should render this more palatable to our egos: nobody is exempt from the irresistible effect of emotions on the mind, not even the wisest among us; and to some extent irrationality is a function of the structure of our brains and is wired into our very nature by the way we process emotions. Being irrational is almost beyond our control.
Learning an alien culture from so deeply inside it, he could no longer accept the superiority of one particular belief or value system. To.
If deception is the most potent weapon in your arsenal, then patience in all things is your crucial shield.
Leonardo was eager to learn all of these skills, but soon he discovered in himself something else: he could not simply do an assignment; he needed to make it something of his own, to invent rather than imitate the Master.
What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion?