Quotes of Stratagem - somelinesforyou

“ Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. ”

- Max Euwe

“ Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand. ”

- William Congreve

“ There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. ”

- Joseph Pulitzer

“ Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan… ”

- Charles J. Givens

“ I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. ”

- Virgil Thomson

“ Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. ”

- Saul Alinsky

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ”

- Sun tzu

“ Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ”

- Sun tzu

“ For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. ”

- Edward Young

“ The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ”

- Washington Irving

“ One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ”

- Harold Pinter

“ Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations. ”

- Jerry Doyle

“ My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ We're trying to move away from looking at ethics as scandal to ethics as strategy. We're lifting up the hood and seeing the concrete strategies companies are using this might help to see what other companies can do. ”

- Peter Singer

“ Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. ”

- Joan Didion

“ Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw. ”

- South

“ In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere ibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, ine nets and stratagems… ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, nor to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now by suffering. This is the easier victory. ”

- T. S. Eliot
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