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• A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Wish, Energy

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• Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

  Roman Abramovich

  Player, Giving, Results

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• What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ego, Unmasking, Constant

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

  John Cleese

  Intelligent, Creative, Trying

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• The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

  Glenn Gould

  Void, Doe, Forget

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

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• To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.

  Philip Guston

  Desire, Arbitrary, Might

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• What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

  Steve Lacy

  Temptation, Survival, Discouraged

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• Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.

  John McCain

  Country, Cutting, Successful

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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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• Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.

  Anthony Principi

  Successful, Technology, Changing Environment

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• This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

  Steve Fisher

  Our World, Class, Alliances

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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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• 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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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

  William J. Clinton

  Brain, Opponents, Losing

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• Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

  Steve Jobs

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• I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.

  Chris Hoy

  Running, Team, Cycling

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Leadership, Looks, Masters

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.16, Bottom of the Hill

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• Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Keys, Energy

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

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• Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Unhappy, Battle, Fields

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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