"Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead."

Strategy, Journey, Adaptation, Learning

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"Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead."

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"Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Strategy, Balance, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

"Let's think like a cop or to be a killer. If I want to be killer I will left some kind a evidence which make me different from the others... so was it this there?? Why you close it?? Was it open?? Did you, you open it???...."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Strategy, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Strategy, Selfishness, Survival, Deception, Life

"Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Strategy, Rules, Problem, Flexibility, Balance

"It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfortunately dead you can't block it, but checkmate can be blocked, in such way so the player can't make it."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Strategy, Truth, Power, Life

"I know the strategy, I know the logic, I know the way but everything is on theory, but fuck me without action it's just a one peace which isn't assembled!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Strategy, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Regret

"From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

Strategy, Vision, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"

Virgil, Roman Poet

Strategy, Enemy, Valor

"The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Strategy, Negotiation, Manipulation, Risk

"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Strategy, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."

Observation

"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."

Caution

"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

Tradition

"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."

Culture

"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."

Leadership

"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."

Discovery

"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."

Adaptation

"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."

Journey

"As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality."

Individuality

"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."

Exploration