Mao Zedong Quotes

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Divide our forces to arouse the masses, concentrate our forces to deal with the enemy. The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. To extend stable base areas, employ the policy of advancing in waves; when pursued by a powerful enemy, employ the policy of circling around. Arouse the largest numbers of the masses in the shortest possible time and by the best possible methods.

The consequences of U. S. superiority is that its opponents, both state and non-state actors, will have little choice but to resort to guerilla tactics and urban warfare because they simply cannot confront U. S. forces head on..

If you can't move and talk to people that you see, it's not really my scene.

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That I think is valuable. In terms of actually tweeting myself, I have just lost enthusiasm for it. Maybe I'll do some of it this week to tell people about the PEN Festival and encourage them to show up.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

Ultimately what we actors are doing is communicating with people who are feeling alone or feeling different or confused or whatever and you're communicating and saying, "Hey, I don't get to know you, but here's a piece of me and you're not alone. We're in this together." Hopefully that communication has maybe made some people feel less alone.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.