Quotes About Strategy

A man who plans on losing loses every time.

That's how I stay on top baby. i look at life from every position. I play from every side. you gotta know what each man on the board is thinking down to the littlest mutherfucker like the pawn

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life," Lina said.

Det tridje kann eg, um turvast kann mot fiendar rame råder: eggjar eg døyver for uvener mine, so det bit korkje våpen eller velur.

Do not disclose ur secret weapon to ur enemy before you use' em

Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel.

As incandescent as was her personality, Cleopatra was every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist, though what passed on his part as strategy would be remembered on hers as manipulation.

When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

Lying for a good business reason has become so prevalent that they had to invent a new, less censorious word for it. They call it positioning, and people get paid good money to do it, lucky for me.

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. George Bernard Shaw

Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will become predictable, and a predictable enemy is much easier to defeat than one who treats his adversaries to a surprise on a regular basis.

Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli's way.

When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them!

I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.

Conocía desde luego, por propia experiencia, el misterioso poder de atracción del «juego de reyes», de ese juego entre los juegos, el único entre los ideados por el hombre que escapa soberanamente a cualquier tiranía del azar, y otorga los laureles de la victoria exclusivamente al espíritu o, mejor aún, a una forma muy característica de agudeza mental.

Mais il suffit d'une seconde pour faire comprendre que, le hasard n'y ayant aucune part, c'est une absurdité de vouloir jouer contre soi-même. L'attrait du jeu d'échecs réside tout entier en ceci que deux cerveaux s'y affrontent, chacun avec sa tactique […] vouloir jouer aux échecs contre soi-même est donc aussi paradoxal que vouloir marcher sur son ombre.

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

chess is a game of pure thought involving no element of chance