"Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy."

-- Charlie Huston

#Thinking Quotes #Behaviour Quotes #Diplomacy Quotes

“I fight on. I fight to win.”
“Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.”
“I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever.It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly.It just has to be there.”

Source : Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.276, Broadway Books
“There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.”
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”
“Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.”
“For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.”
“Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.”

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