Tactics Quotes

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

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

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

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

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

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

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

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 pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

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.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

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.

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.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

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

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

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

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

Tactics flow from a superior position

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.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

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

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

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

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

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.

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

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.

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

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

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.