Strategy Quotes - Page 29

• When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

  Pal Benko

  Worry, Upset, Trying

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• An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

  Paul Keres

  Innovation, Chess, Needs

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• In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Book, Games, Play

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• A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

  Reuben Fine

  Moving, Games, Chess

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• The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Essentials, Chess, Firsts

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

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• When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Games, Creating, Weakness

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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Stubborn, Chess, Resistance

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

  Seth Godin

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  "Strategy matters more than ever". sethgodin.typepad.com. July 23, 2012.

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• USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Usa, Als

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Differences, Creating

  "Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Work, Special, Purpose

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• The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  School, Mind, Purpose

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• What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, People, Giving

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• In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Power, History

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• Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Commitment, Effort, Should

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• There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

  Richard Jackson

  Losing Control, Practice, Data

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• Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Effort, Vision

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012

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• I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.

  Richard Schmid

  Mean, Thinking, Starting Over

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

  Anatole France

  Climbing, Bridges, Rivers

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• Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Past, Iron, World

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• You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Apples, Perfect

  Fortune magazine, September 18, 1995.

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