Quotes About Tactics

Among all the tactics[to elevate their position in status hierarchies], industriousness proved to be the best predictor of past and anticipated income and promotions. Those who worked harder achieved higher levels of education and higher annual salaries, and they anticipated greater salaries and promotions than those who failed to work hard.

Analogously, men value physical attractiveness, and I found that women were most likely to cite enhancing their appearance as one of their primary mate retention tactics—a finding that is replicable across cultures, including Brazil, Croatia, and the United States.40 Out of the nineteen clusters evaluated, enhancing their appearance was the second most effective tactic used by women, after love and kindness.

The reason for men's higher mortality, like that of males of many mammalian species, stems directly from their sexual psychology, and in particular from their competition for mates. The use of risky tactics of competition becomes greater as the differences in reproductive outcome become greater.

Many of the behaviors are ordinary tactics of courtship, such as sending flowers, leaving notes, phoning, dropping by. If the overtures are welcome, it's courtship. If they are unwelcome and elicit alarm, they qualify as stalking.

Men prize physical attractiveness more than women when looking for a mate, which is why this is one of the critical issues in competition among women, and also why one of the tactics women most frequently use to derogate their sexual rivals is public putdowns regarding a rival's appearance.

when you haven't got the numbers, be vicious. It's called minority politics.

Usually when I was forced to compete, it was my tactic to simply give up. To try in any way was to announce your ambition, which only made you more vulnerable. The person who wanted to win but failed was a loser, while the person who didn't really care was just a weirdo—a title I had learned to live with.

Battles aren't always—or even usually—won by killing everybody on the other side. They're won inside the other side's brains and wills. Given the right weapons, the right tactical situation, anyone can kill an enemy. Convincing her to yield, to do what you set out to compel her to do without killing her—that's harder.

We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

in the subtle way of the best bullies Judy and Aimee strove to freeze me out of all important decisions while simultaneously ensuring that nothing they said or did could be explicitly interpreted as punishment or retribution.

I'm not going to abandon the power game, but I'm going to be sure use it to my advantage.

I do not agree that the coach has to adapt to the players. There was a time when I thought it, but that was because I did not understand football.

I'm an admirer of Guardiola's work.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Canelo isn't a full light-middleweight like I am, and that's to my advantage.

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

I've learned that I have to be more aggressive in that position, when I'm leading the match.

I like aggressive football and for players to put pressure on the ball.

You know, that's kind of the discipline of playing defense is you've got to stay home when you've got to stay home, but at the same time, we want to be aggressive.

There's a balance to find between possessing the ball and being aggressive.

We can uproot the Al Houthis and Saleh in a matter of days.

Hit and move, that's amateur boxing and that's what I'm good at.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.