Quotes on Tactics

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.

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.

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

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.

I've taken on impossible fights before and won and I've done it not by taking on the tactics and techniques of demagogues and bullies but by calling people to our higher angels, calling to the moral imagination of communities about what we can be and what we can achieve together.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

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.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

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

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

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