Tactics Quotes

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

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

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

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.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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.

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

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

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

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

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

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.

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

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

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

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

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

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

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

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

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

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

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

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

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

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