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.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

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.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.