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Strategy Quotes
"It's a simple working formula: if who you are and what you have - in your relationships, at home, or on the job - are what you want, that's perfect; keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. However, if who you are and what you have is less than or different than what you want, you'll have to make some basic changes."
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"We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."
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"Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat."
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"Make use of every friend- and every foe."
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"If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields."
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"Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize."
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"Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit."
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"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
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"Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her."
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"You know you're smarter than all of them, right?' Hale said flatly.'In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it...'He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. 'I don't count cards, Hale.''Don't?' Hale smiled. 'Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal.''But it's frowned upon.'Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... 'It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon."
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"I could kill him for her," Fury offered.Vane cleared his throat."Well, he could have an accident," Fury tried again. "Humans have those all the time."
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"Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive."
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"The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life."
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"Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious."
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"Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."
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"Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage."
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"Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents."
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"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Have you positioned yourself to be reachable and accessible by those you seek to serve and make an impact on? Do they know where and how to find you, either physically or in the cyber realm? If they cannot reach you for whatever reason, then you have not done your homework, because you are supposed to have a strategy to reach them before they can even look for you! Otherwise someone else will meet them along the way as they look for you."
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"It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King."
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"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
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"Why do people seek one and not the other? It is the majorities that are led and they normally follow those who can help them meet their ever-present and growing needs. Question is, do you possess the kind of solutions they want? Are you well positioned to reach them or to be reachable by those who can benefit from your solution to their challenges?"
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"You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities."
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"You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light."No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in.""And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena.""Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says."
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"I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker."
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"Whilst the greatest threat to your mission is the internal aspects within you, the external circumstances need to be covered against as well. Scan your external environment and circumstances."
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"A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost."
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"If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on."
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"We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue.'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"I'm ready, too."
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"To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day isn't running away, but looking for another road towards the same destination."
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