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"Hurriers will often mistake surface phenomena for a real trend seeing only what they want to see. How much better to see what is really happening even if it is unpleasant or makes your task harder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1978974322766041551) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T00:00Z 438.7K followers, 8606 engagements


"Never be too precipitate where there is a possibility of danger. Take due time to consider before you risk an action that may be fatal. Let someone else make the experiment before you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979578478094696856) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-18T16:01Z 438.7K followers, 9652 engagements


"When your mind is uncluttered by constant emergencies you will see further into the future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979216117995344169) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T16:01Z 438.7K followers, 20.7K engagements


"When the times were against Fouche he did not struggle get emotional or strike out rashly. He kept his cool and maintained a low profile patiently building support among the citizenry the bulwark in his next rise to power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980001153443135941) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-19T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 9291 engagements


"Never seem to be in a hurry hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself and over time. Always seem patient as if you know that everything will come to you eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980907209572659636) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-22T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 14.1K engagements


"Make alliances with those below you and elevate them to positions of power to secure their support in times of need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1976920905033880011) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-11T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 22.9K engagements


"Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects and admit to harmless vices in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1977826883208122542) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-13T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 13.8K engagements


"You can wait as long as necessary for the conclusion to come but when it comes it must come quickly. Use speed to paralyze your opponent cover up any mistakes you might make and impress people with your aura of authority and finality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1978008065363370110) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-14T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Making people wait is a powerful way of forcing time as long as they do not figure out what you are up to. You control the clock they linger in limbo and rapidly come unglued opening up opportunities for you to strike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1978672449928429868) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-16T04:00Z 438.7K followers, 11.8K engagements


"The trick in forcing time is to upset the timing of others to make them hurry to make them wait to make them abandon their own pace to distort their perception of time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1978793361281634601) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-16T12:01Z 438.7K followers, 11.2K engagements


"To build your powers foundation can take years; make sure that foundation is secure. Do not be a flash in the pan success that is built up slowly and surely is the only kind that lasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979095210203222243) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 9513 engagements


"Opportunities will inevitably arise that you had not expected and would have missed had you forced the pace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979155670428471460) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T12:00Z 438.7K followers, 10K engagements


"Whenever he found himself in the weaker position he played for time which he knew would always be his ally if he was patient. Recognize the moment then to hide in the grass or slither under a rock as well as the moment to bare your fangs and attack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979940814756143148) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-19T16:00Z 438.7K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Artists who hole themselves up in their fortress lose a sense of proportion their work communicating only to their small circle. Such art remains cornered and powerless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1981028170213048645) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-22T16:01Z 438.7K followers, 7792 engagements


"Slowing time down will give you a perspective on the times you live in letting you take a certain distance and putting you in a less emotionally charged position to see the shapes of things to come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979034850830012717) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T04:00Z 438.7K followers, 9757 engagements


"In your rivals on the other hand you can encourage this same mistake: If you let them rush headlong into trouble while you stand back and wait you will soon find ripe moments to intervene and pick up the pieces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979276443000467820) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-17T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 7695 engagements


"When you force the pace out of fear and impatience you create a nest of problems that require fixing and you end up taking much longer than if you had taken your time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979518138988306604) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-18T12:01Z 438.7K followers, 8743 engagements


"If the inner turmoil caused by our emotions tends to make time move faster it follows that once we control our emotional responses to events time will move much more slowly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979638816722796758) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-18T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 9637 engagements


"The time of a child is long and slow with vast expanses; the time of an adult whizzes by frighteningly fast. Time then depends on perception which we know can be willfully altered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979699127320559870) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-19T00:00Z 438.7K followers, 10.6K engagements


"Time is an artificial concept that we ourselves have created to make the limitlessness of eternity and the universe more bearable more human. Since we have constructed the concept of time we are also able to mold it to some degree to play tricks with it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979819990330089707) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-19T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 8342 engagements


"Space we can recover time never. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1979880401330995602) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-19T12:00Z 438.7K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Without patience as your sword and shield your timing will fail and you will inevitably find yourself a loser"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980061470831284369) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-20T00:00Z 438.7K followers, 16.7K engagements


"Any potent social movement creates a powerful reaction and it is wise to anticipate what that reaction will be. Rather than ride the cresting wave of the moment wait for the tides ebb to carry you back to power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980122005186757091) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-20T04:00Z 438.7K followers, 9814 engagements


"Now Time you should remember is a good friend and ally to those who use their intelligence to choose the right moment but a most dangerous enemy to those who rush into action at the wrong one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980484442545144167) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-21T04:01Z 438.7K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution or even of those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980665736856007108) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-21T16:01Z 438.7K followers, 9874 engagements


"Patiently waiting for his chance he kept his options open"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980726028054974806) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-21T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1980786259392971221) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-22T00:00Z 438.7K followers, 8814 engagements


"Isolation on the other hand engenders an awkwardness in your gestures and leads to further isolation as people start avoiding you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1981088406965830036) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-22T20:00Z 438.7K followers, 17.9K engagements


"Never imagine yourself so elevated that you can afford to cut yourself off from even the lowest echelons. By retreating to a fortress you make yourself an easy target for your plotting subjects who view your isolation as an insult and a reason for rebellion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1981209168846467227) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-23T04:00Z 438.7K followers, 8202 engagements


"This law pertains to kings and queens and to those of the highest power: The moment you lose contact with your people seeking security in isolation rebellion is brewing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/48_quotes/status/1981269550046777628) [@48_quotes](/creator/x/48_quotes) 2025-10-23T08:00Z 438.7K followers, 5753 engagements