Tactics Quotes · Page 6

“The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.”

— Mike Davis

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

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

— Theresa May

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear…

— Andrew Sullivan

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

— Paulo Coelho

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Saul Alinsky

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

— George S. Patton

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

— Joe Slovo

I try not to think about the person, just their tactics, their weaknesses and strengths. I play against the ball.

— Ana Ivanovic

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work…

— Bill Walsh

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election,…

— Paul Begala

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and…

— Manuel De Landa

You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but…

— Laura Slade Wiggins

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky…

— Andrew Breitbart

Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited…

— Philipp Lahm

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different.…

— Glenn Beck

The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business…

— Bruce Rasmussen

I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of…

— Dougray Scott

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power…

— Saul Alinsky

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to…

— Anonymous

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

“...playing possum was a skill he'd learned in China once upon a time, and it had come in handy more than once.…

— Taylor Anderson

In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed…

— John Ashcroft

“Conservative estimates place the Persian casualties at some two thousand in less than twenty minutes, victims of the unforgiving geometry of the…

— William Rosen

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

— Sandra Cisneros

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate…

— John Foster Dulles

It's important that a player can play in different positions for if we have to change tactics.

— Roberto Mancini

Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so…

— Dov Davidoff

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

— Rafael Nadal

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

— Alan Dershowitz

ACT AS IF YOU ARE A FOOL TO STUDY THE STRATEGY OF PEOPLE. IF YOU LET OUT HONESTLY, THEY WILL FIND THE…

— Yssubramanyam

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Pat Paulsen

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

— Sammy Davis, Jr

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this…

— Herman Gorter

I want to do a lot of things in my career and keep building on my talent, learn more about the tactics…

— Adama Traore

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

— Grayson Perry

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

— Christopher Hitchens