Hideo Kojima Quotes

You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

The colonists did not realize it but you and I know that emigration … could have been stopped and all ports could have been closed. It was my duty to steer my precious bark through all the shoals and quirks regardless of the quirks and ridicule of the passengers. I knew what I was about—they did not.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

Mr. President: When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. I ask for the reading of the resolution.

Putin's recent penchant for high stakes wagers may prove even harder for Western leaders to handle than a policy of consistent expansionism, A rational imperialist can be contained, but the appropriate response to a gambler who makes snap decisions based on short term factors is less clear.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

I work with young people, and I know that we must be careful. Newspaper headlines, sudden notoriety, and important comparisons can lead to confusion.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.