Quotes About Tactics

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Throw a hand grenade into a German pillbox and they come out with hands reaching for the sky and shouting "Kamerad!" Throw a hand grenade into a Japanese pillbox and they throw it right back at you. It

A well-seasoned strategist waits for the right opportunity.

Madoc described fighting as a lot of things, as a game of strategy played at speed, as a dance, but right now it feels like a argument. Like an argument where she's keeping me too busy defending myself to score any points.

I always have a plan," she said, rising her eyebrows. "Sometimes, even, a scheme. You should be taking lessons from me.

Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.

What is sparring but a game of strategy,played at speed?

One of the hardest things to do as a spy, a strategist, or even just as a person, is wait.

Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn't win if only one of you was playing.

throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it. The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.

The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means--and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one--to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.

I took some lifelong lessons away from my days of playing chess. The game is very analytical, and you must change your analysis with every single move. I realized that the same lesson applies to life, too—if your course changes a little bit, your strategy must change along with it.

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.

I take it these people have some sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it, and thus it escapes.

We have to be able to endure bullying, stonewalling, and the anger of the other negotiator without faltering. We should be prepared to propose ultimatums and hold firm even when we see that our stance is making the other negotiator frustrated or unhappy.

understanding and effectively countering the antagonists' methods through creative means

Struggle can be mobilized as resistance and as transformation. It can provide the means for working things out 'on the ground', for identifying and solving problems of practice, for identifying strengths and weaknesses, for refining tactics and uncovering deeper challenges.

I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.

There's no better way to get people to cooperate in this country than by seeming a little unhinged.

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Van Gaal was always very intensive with his tactics. You had to work more with your head than your legs.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.