Tactics famous quotes

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
-- Barbara Deming

#Moving #Men #Tactics

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #Tactics #Rehabilitation

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Fire #Victory #Tactics

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,
-- Bob Corker

#Tactics #Failing #Canyons

Tactics flow from a superior position
-- Bobby Fischer

#Tactics #Chess #Flow

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Tactics #Incentives #Strategy

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen

#Eye #Tactics

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
-- Charles Djou

#Bullying #Strong #Tactics

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Tactics #Impossible #Terrorism

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
-- David Gates

#Business #Three #Tactics

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.
-- Dick Pound

#Hands #Tactics #Results

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Believe #Tactics #Communism

Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.
-- Eric Holder

#Justice #Execution #Tactics

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
-- Ferdinand Foch

#Military #War #Tactics

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Silence #Tactics #Distrust

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
-- Frank Muir

#Wine #Bottles #Tactics

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
-- Garry Disher

#Red #Fiction #Tactics

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Brain #Tactics #Chess

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
-- George Friedman

#Reality #Tactics #Might

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
-- George S. Patton

#Tactics #Strategy #Worst

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by ***** power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
-- Germaine Greer

# #Tactics #World

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.
-- Greg LeMond

#Sports #Lucky #Tactics

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
-- Herb Caen

#Self #Tactics #Satire

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die
-- Herb Elliott

#Running #Tactics #Admire

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
-- Ingrid Newkirk

#Animal #Years #Tactics

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.
-- Irving Azoff

#Business #Guy #Tactics

I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.
-- Jerry Vlasak

#Struggle #Animal #Tactics

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.
-- Jerry Vlasak

#Thinking #Principles #Tactics

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
-- Jimmy Greaves

#Football #Atoms #Tactics

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.
-- Joe Slovo

#Country #Important #Tactics

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
-- John Berger

#Government #People #Tactics

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.
-- John Foster Dulles

#Goal #Tactics #World

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.
-- John Kessel

#Sports #Principles #Tactics

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
-- John Podhoretz

#Tactics #Conservative #Republican

When all else fails, fresh tactics!
-- John Travolta

#Failure #Tactics #Failing

I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.
-- K.P. Yohannan

#Believe #Enemy #Tactics

When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.
-- Kevin Eikenberry

#Organization #Ideas #Tactics

I had my own battle tactics.
-- Lech Walesa

#Battle #Tactics

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
-- Mac Thornberry

#War #Ideas #Tactics

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication #Tactics #Motivated

There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.
-- Matthew Engel

#Soccer #Sunday #Tactics

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
-- Max Euwe

#Tactics #Chess #Strategy

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
-- Michael Bergdahl

#Tactics #Strategy #Easy

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.
-- Mohammed Dahlan

#Tactics #Would Be #Frightened

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

#Tactics #Logistics

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Lying #Order #Tactics

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
-- Patricia Wentworth

#Tactics #Favors

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

#Men #Winning #Tactics

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
-- Richard Stallman

#Friendly #Tactics #Terror

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.
-- Robert Solow

#Games #Battle #Tactics

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
-- Sam Shepard

#Scare #Democracy #Tactics

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr.

#Regret #Wish #Tactics

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Art #Opposites #Tactics

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
-- Saul

#People #Tactics #Enjoy

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
-- Saul Alinsky

#Creativity #Mean #Tactics

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
-- Savielly Tartakower

#Knowing #Tactics #Strategy

We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.
-- Sergey Biryuzov

#Fundamentals #Tactics #Arms

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
-- Steve Irwin

#People #Tactics #Predator

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
-- Steve Swallow

#Voice #Style #Tactics

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .
-- Sun Bin

#Elements #Tactics #Surprise

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.
-- Sun Tzu

#Winning #Tactics #Opponents

In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.
-- Terence MacSwiney

#Battle #Use #Tactics

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
-- Tommy Lee Jones

#War #People #Tactics

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Community #Tactics

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Games #Tactics

Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?
-- Laurent Blanc

#Beautiful #Football #Tactics

Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.
-- Malcolm Wrightson Nance

#Fundamentals #Arson #Tactics

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.
-- William J. Duiker

#Use #Movement #Tactics

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
-- Adolph Malan

#Decision #Tactics #Aviation

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.
-- Cleve Jones

#Believe #Important #Tactics

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations
-- David Axelrod

#Thinking #President #Tactics

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.
-- Ron Paul

#War #Tactics #Terror

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
-- Georg Ebers

#Sorrow #Tactics #Enthusiasm

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
-- Grayson Perry

#Artist #Tactics #These Days

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.
-- Jack Campbell

#People #Tactics #Authority