The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul AlinskyRead
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Stay persistent and adaptable in your efforts to achieve your goals.
Saul Alinsky emphasizes the importance of maintaining relentless pressure in pursuit of your objectives, adjusting tactics and actions as necessary. By leveraging the circumstances and events around you, one can effectively advance their mission, demonstrating the need for flexibility and strategic planning in activism or any undertaking.
Themes
PressureTacticsActionEventsPurposeStrategy
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
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All quotes βLest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
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The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
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