Tim Sweeney Quotes

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

there are some people of a timid or very opportunists mind who press on us the necessity of leading people on by little and little, concealing the object they have in view, until people are so far committed to the steps to be taken towards it that they cannot draw back again

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

You can't fool children.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

The public can't be fooled all the time.

Conscious people fully know who is serving them selflessly and who is trying to create anarchy.

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.