I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
One thing people are gonna have to understand about Trump: He's not stupid; he's not a bull in a china shop. You may end up disagreeing with him profoundly. You may not end up not liking him at all before this is over. I don't know. But he's not dumb, and he's not ignorant, and it's not that he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing and is doing it for a reason.
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 don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.
Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.
We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
