Strategic Quotes - Page 7

• I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

  Dougray Scott

  Horse, Military, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Practice, People, Brave

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Europe, Creating

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• The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

  Rick Santorum

  Issues, Decision, President

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• The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

  Michael Porter

  Facts, Improvement, Consistent

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

  Aisha Hinds

  Rights, Movement, Parks

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I wouldn't give up on Russia, and with oil at $90 a barrel, they can refurbish their strategic capabilities and under an authoritarian regime, those nuclear weapons are still there and in the wrong hands we might have a problem again.

  John Bolton

  Giving Up, Oil, Russia

  Source: humanevents.com

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• It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

  Mark Shields

  People, Mind, Enemy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Simple, Impact

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking the important balance between being thorough and being flexible.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Numbers, People, Balance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• , I'm going to reserve judgment on [Rex] Tillerson. But I'll ask him the same question I've asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a strategic mistake, that's what Donald Trump says.

  Rand Paul

  War, Mistake, Iraq

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• I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, Made, Comfortable

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

  Douglas Adams

  Hair, Profound, Understanding

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

  Jane Lindskold

  Strong, Enemy, Retreat

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• It's a strategic thing to be in permanent campaign mode.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Campaigns, Permanent

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Organization, Secret

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.20, Penguin

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• We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Body, Location, Willpower

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Should Have, Careers, Should

  Source: www.ign.com

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• [James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

  Michele Flournoy

  Students, Thinker

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

  Donald Tusk

  Rights, Democracy, Unions

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Identity, Exclusion, Consciousness

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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