Randy Johnson

“When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion? It is only natural for people to cover up their actions with all kinds of justifications, always assuming that they have acted out of goodness. You must learn to inwardly laugh each time you hear this and never get caught up in gauging someone’s intentions and actions through a set of moral judgments that are really an excuse for the accumulation of power.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when you lead him into a trap.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“The Tiny Wound.     It is small but painful and irritating. You try all sorts of medicaments, you com- plain, you scratch and pick at the scab. Doctors only make it worse, transforming the tiny wound into a grave matter. If only you had left the wound alone, letting time heal it and freeing yourself of worry.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power