Strategy proverbs

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◆ I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

- Craig Ferguson98

◆ Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower98

◆ The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

- Richard M. Nixon98

◆ Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

- Colin Powell98

◆ Every advantage is temporary.

- Katerina Stoykova Klemer98

◆ When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

- Miyamoto Musashi98

◆ There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

- Sun Tzu98

◆ Love spiritually, not strategically.

- T.F. Hodge98

◆ Organize, don't agonize.

- Nancy Pelosi98

◆ Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

- Carl von Clausewitz98

◆ If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

- Chin-Ning Chu98

◆ It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it gave rise is sad to think upon. But the present generation will probably behave just as badly if another Darwin should arise, and inflict upon them that which the generality of mankind most hate—the necessity of revising their convictions. Let them, then, be charitable to us ancients; and if they behave no better than the men of my day to some new benefactor, let them recollect that, after all, our wrath did not come to much, and vented itself chiefly in the bad language of sanctimonious scolds. Let them as speedily perform a strategic right-about-face, and follow the truth wherever it leads.

- Thomas Henry Huxley98

◆ It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

- Terry Pratchett98

◆ I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.

- Toba Beta98

◆ Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.? Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

- Sun Tzu98