Tactics Quotations | Page 3

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

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

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

There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

I had my own battle tactics.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

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

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.

You can't put a side away any more because these tactics are diminishing fatigue as a factor. It's almost done on cue.

The union's actions today shows that it thinks nothing of using distorted facts and fear tactics to achieve its goal of converting our loyal employees into dues-paying members of its struggling organization. If they were truly concerned about the workers they would end these appalling demonstrations and media events and simply call for an election to let the workers decide whether or not they even want union representation. Why are they so afraid of Democracy?

These are not tactics of war, they are crimes of war, ... Deploying human shields is not a military strategy, it's murder, a violation of the laws of armed conflict and a crime against humanity, and it will be treated as such.

These are good tactics and good results. No one seems particularly interested in taking Macquarie's bid, but LSE is making sure by telling shareholders it's big enough and large enough to do it on its own.

Allen Clark has ruined a lot of careers through his tactics and I could see what was going on in my case so I retired at the end of December 2003, ... Once he gained power and notoriety, it went on from there and not many people out here were sorry to see him resign.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

The difficulty is that worm developers are using tactics that have been successful in e-mail campaigns. They're able to mutate earlier worms and try different strategies, and that's giving them a level of sophistication.

The generic industry has been under considerable pressure over the last several months due to increased competition and aggressive tactics by brand companies seeking to delay the introduction of generic products, and these new initiatives are designed to reduce our exposure to these trends.

The committee is going to get the truth out and won't let Stewart's tactics stop them.

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.

The massive cuts reflect high inventory levels, falling new vehicle sales and a shift in automaker tactics from price cuts to production cuts,

The meeting discussed the tactics to be adopted for the forthcoming assembly polls and it was decided that the party and the government should work in tandem.

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

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.

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

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.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

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.

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

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.

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

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

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.

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

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

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

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.

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

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

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

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

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

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.