Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential...
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Miyamoto Musashi
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
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Jonathan Stroud
Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
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37 Signals
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience;...
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Carl Von Clausewitz
More Quotes By Chris Matthews
Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.
The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.
Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
