Tact Quotes - Page 2

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

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.

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.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

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.

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

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

The eyes are the windows to the soul

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

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

Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late

Tactics flow from a superior position

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

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

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

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

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.

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

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products.

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.

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.