Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics"
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Tactics
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Frank Muir
Writer, Broadcaster
"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."
T. E. Lawrence
Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
"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."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win."
Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second."
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"We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters."
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"When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value ."
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"No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!"
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"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."
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"So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers."
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"The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia"
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"Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable."
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"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
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"My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is."
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"Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?"
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"Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over."
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"I had my own battle tactics."
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"Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself."
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"When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities."
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"Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries ."
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"Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that."
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"Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using."
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"You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away."
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"A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment."
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"In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything."
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