Quotes About Strategy

The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.

With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs. Diss Ti'wyn

Instead of throwing traps into

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

The contempt and loathing women are trained to feel for each other is the single most powerful strategy misogyny has in maintaining the oppression of women. Male supremacist culture replaces the natural loving solidarity between women with hate.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

January] 26th. [1863] ...and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

Hayat satranç gibidir. On parçan? kaybedip yine de kazanabilirsin...

One day the fighter pilot guided from the ground will chase, at supersonic speed, the atom-bomb carrier for scores of miles high up in the stratosphere. But science must not become an aim in itself. Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring a success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Recall that one builds a labyrinth not to hide but to lie in wait.

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

Un plan prost executat la timp este mai bun decât un plan genial pus în practic? prea târziu.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

The Lion and the Fox

Mitch McConnell's innovation was in using it constantly to slow down things that did have bipartisan support, just to make sure as little as possible happened that Obama could get credit for. You