Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

I like to feel blonde all over.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Boldness be my friend.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I am fearless.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I like my fair share of board games.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.