Robert Jordan Quotes

In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.

Foreknowledge is power.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.

This is politics. In politics, you only show the cake but not the ingredients. The time will come when I show you the cake and the ingredients.

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.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No," he said. "No plan.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he’s actually doing another. You think that I’m dying, but I’m laughing at you.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Dont shoot where it is, son. Shoot where its going to be.

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.

Machination is worth more than force.