Quotes About Strategy

Go to her," Grimalkin said, backing away. "Wake her up. I will attempt to rouse Goodfellow once more. Perhaps he will waken if claws are applied in a strategically important area...

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives. -Julius Evola, Orientations: Eleven Points

Homegirl was 'bout about it. Knew that when Gondolin falls you don't wait around for the balrogs to tap on your door. You make fucking moves. And make moves she did. Papers were assembled, palms were greased, and permissions secured.

Los que menos corren, vuelan

The Doctor's plan, such as it was, was to escape from Barinska without being shot.

There may not be time.' Strax said, 'to conduct a full surveillance regime according to prescribed regulations in order to formulate a coherent strategy of the best method to effect entry.' 'That's true,' Madame Vastra agreed. 'So I suggest you simply break down this door.

The first order of business is to get all stakeholders to agree on a common vision. The vision must drive everything, from architecture to commitments.

Put Hannibal in the scales.

Of course, I never beat Ogus at anything, unless I cheated. Which I did, whenever I could. I figure, winning is winning. Cheating is just one of many ways of prevailing; just happens to be the way I'm best at.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? "That's like saying the cat's cat is a dog.

There was once a king in a far-off land who said, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

I gather you play chess, he'd said, and she'd given him a look, later he'd ralised it was fair warning; yes, she played chess. The had a mignificent coral and ivory set, worth a thousand acres of good arable land. He'd made soft opening, the way you do when you're playing a girl, and suddenly he found himself staring defeat in the facs - he'd never los a game except three times, to Senza.

Phrantzes considered for a moment, collecting his thoughts like a general rallying his surviving troops after a massacre.

For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board.

better not to piss off this loathsome and troublesome man, just in case we need him one day. Which is why nobody is ever pleased to see me, and why I never have to buy my own drinks.

Still, it was better than sitting around playing cards waiting to have your throat cut.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

He wanted to be on good terms with the Washington generals," Dyson observed, "and to be a savior of humanity at the same time.

The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb . . . will not in any deep strategic sense offset their two-thousandth.

The Air Force did not want Eisenhower exposed to Oppenheimer's thinking, particularly since his views would support the Army's demand for a bigger share of the atomic budget.

I feel very familiar with Granados at this point. One night I watched about three or four of his fights and some interviews and really got to put him in my mind. He's an aggressive fighter who's not easily hurt or fazed by what's going on in the ring.