Patricia Briggs Quotes

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

A shinobi embodies an archetype that is able to use everything at their disposal. They don't pick a fighting style; they use every means and everything they can get their hands on. They exploit every weakness.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

You have to stick to your guns and still know when to be flexible. That's something I've had to learn-which battles to fight.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.