Quotes About Tactics

#1. Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive," says Ora.

Shaune Bordere

#2. When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.

Kevin Eikenberry

#3. Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her.

Katie McGarry

#4. The message was wrong, I knew that now, but maybe the tactics were right. Perhaps we could use the methods of the Islamist groups to create a counter-Islamist movement, to do da'wah for the democratic culture?

Maajid Nawaz

#5. Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.

Vladimir Kramnik

#6. Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.

Patrick Hall

#7. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Eric Alterman

#8. Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Herb Caen

#9. Tactics could never genuinely move a person.

Hideo Yokoyama

#10. Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

Michael Chabon

#11. I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

Sam Yagan

#12. One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

Herbert Hoover

#13. Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Billy Connolly

#14. In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Tyler Cowen

#15. Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

Sunday Adelaja

#16. A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

David Gates

#17. Influencers use four tactics to help people love what they hate: 1. Allow for choice. 2. Create direct experiences. 3. Tell meaningful stories. 4. Make it a game.

Kerry Patterson

#18. The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#19. salami tactics - slicing off layers of opposition one by one.

Timothy Snyder

#20. Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Fred Perry

#21. 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.

Garry Kasparov

#22. Traditions of the Shinobi: Those who are active as shinobi should try their best to see, hear, or write down what they should know and, in secret, to collect the information about a place, even while in battle. This will enable you to steal into the enemy territory with tactics.

Yoshie Minami

#23. His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.

Giles Milton

#24. When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#25. The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Iain Banks

#26. The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

Sara Harrison

#27. Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics - "5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with the bayonet only & Kill everybody with clothes on.

William J. Cooper Jr.

#28. 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.

Sam Shepard

#29. Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.

Hans Jonas

#30. Without new visions, we don't know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us

Robin D.G. Kelley

#31. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

Bill Walsh

#32. I hate when people use my tactics against me.

Sean Hannity

#33. 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.

Jonah Goldberg

#34. It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done.

Zendaya

#35. The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Robert Bresson

#36. The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Billy Graham

#37. The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

#38. That's what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first.

Glenn Beck

#39. Psychology, trading tactics, and money management are the three pillars of success, but there is the fourth factor that ties them together. That factor - which integrates all others - is record-keeping.

Anonymous

#40. In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina

#41. Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.

Deyth Banger

#42. The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Herb Elliott

#43. The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

Coretta Scott King

#44. I don't think we should ever tell our enemy what our tactics are.

Mike Pence

#45. Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

#46. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

Arrigo Sacchi

#47. The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

Billy Bishop

#48. Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

Steven Pinker

#49. We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Barbra Streisand

#50. To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James

#51. You hardly seem the type who needs to resort to covert tactics to cop a feel.

Victoria Vane

#52. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

John Steinbeck

#53. I've been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

Matt Bomer

#54. Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Michel Faber

#55. If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

Barack Obama

#56. We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

Mitchell Reiss

#57. I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

John Paul DeJoria

#58. I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

David Axelrod

#59. There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

Lupe Fiasco

#60. As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Rosa Parks

#61. As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Michael Owen

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

Tom Clancy

#63. Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Bode Miller

#64. The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

Robert McFarlane

#65. People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

Andy Murray

#66. Our tactics were an amazing complexity of middling targets, inconsistent scheduling, and waffling commitment.

Bernie Fipp

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

Heinz Guderian

#68. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

#69. It was misconceived because Johnson appeared to think the kind of tactics that worked in a Texas saloon would work in Vietnam: beat a man, then stop beating him and say, Give in, or I'll beat you some more.

Niall Ferguson

#70. Women have their own way of comforting each other, and their tactics seemed to elude male kind.

Kiersten Fay

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

Sun Bin

#72. They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.

Stacy Schiff

#73. Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norman Finkelstein

#74. Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

Mac Thornberry

#75. Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Georg Ebers

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

Jimmy Greaves

#77. Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Meek Mill

#78. Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

Eric Holder

#79. 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.

Benito Mussolini

#80. Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Bernie Sanders

#81. Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Seth Godin

#82. 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.

Greg LeMond

#83. This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Virginia Foxx

#84. It is true, we should not be discussing in a wide spread way the exact tactics that we're going to use because that allows terrorist to know to practice how to evade us.

Marco Rubio

#85. One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#86. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

Sun Tzu

#87. Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results.

Jeremiah Talamantes

#88. Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

John Kessel

#89. Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

Jose Rodriguez

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

Grayson Perry

#91. Both the Glory and the destroyer We are Proud to Honor Clan Sub-Leader Rash-au-Tal Vergent who Inspires us Every Day had gathered vital intelligence about Ruhar defense tactics and capabilities.

Craig Alanson

#92. As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

William Eldridge Odom

#93. Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.

Julie Garwood

#94. I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

Madeleine Albright

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

Desmond Tutu

#96. Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

George Steiner

#97. I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

Lupe Fiasco

#98. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

George Friedman

#99. Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel.

Karina Halle

#100. Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

Theresa May