Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tactics Quotes

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. 
George Soros 

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. 
Sun Tzu 

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. 
Napoleon Bonaparte 

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

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. 
Hillary Clinton 

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. 
Eric Alterman 

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes. 
Brian Clough 

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies. 
Bode Miller 

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. 
Barbra Streisand 

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 

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. 
Billy Connolly 

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. 
Jacky Ickx 

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. 
Lajos Kossuth 

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. 
Rob Portman 

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics. 
Paul Begala 

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. 
Alan Dundes 

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people. 
Roy Barnes 

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 

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened. 
Michael J. Owen 

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward. 
Mitchell Reiss


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


I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes. 
Oscar de la Renta 

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important. 
Sergei Bubka 

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

America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. 
John Olver 

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

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. 
Saul Alinsky 

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 

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 

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. 
Herman Gorter 

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class? 
Herman Gorter 

Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works. 
Herman Gorter 

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. 
Greg LeMond 

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. 
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. 

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. 
T. E. Lawrence 

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. 
Giuseppe Garibaldi 

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

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq. 
Rand Beers 

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. 
Deval Patrick 

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. 
Fred Perry


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


Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. 
Max Euwe 

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 

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

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