Quotes About Strategy

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A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it—by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The gentlemen among my readers will smile to themselves and say that women never did understand business, but the ladies may agree with me that Mrs Brandy understood her business very well, for the chief business of Mrs Brandy's life was to make Stephen Black as much in love with her as she was with him.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference ' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

One of the surest means of preserving peace is always to be prepared for war.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as all hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

To be in the game, but not playing with the intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to.

Your music is perfectly tuned to get the results you are now getting.

A frame is a psychological model you build for yourself to organize and carry out a strategy to attain a goal; to move from spot A to spot B while guarding against detours and resistance."

The easiest and fastest route to WIN BIG in life requires getting around winners. Watch what they do and do it. Listen to what they say and say it. Follow the patterns.

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher's desk instead of learning how to do the math.

Over the years, I've gotten better and better at returning from mental and physical exhaustion…The fighter who can recover in the thirty seconds between rounds…will have a huge advantage over the guy who is still huffing and puffing, mentally or physically, from the last battle.

The key was to roll with the evolving situation, and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home…if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.