Strategic Behavior Quotes

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

In 'Bigg Boss,' back-biting is inevitable. It's a part of the game, and there's nothing wrong about it.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

… with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Politics is nothing but opportunism.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

A wise man will see to it that his act always seems voluntary and not done be compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

I'm smart about the way I move. I'm smart about the way I conduct myself outside the Octagon, like who I associate myself with.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

True consistency, that of the prudent and wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.