Strategic Quotes - Page 11

• The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

  Daniel Dennett

  Taken, Reality, Land

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Generations, Bigs

  "I Did It My Way". Newsweek Interview, www.newsweek.com. February 25, 2007.

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• Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Fighting, Russia, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Past, Air, Impossible

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• We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Zero, Thinking, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

  Christiane Collange

  Errors, Order, Majority

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• The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Use, Creation

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• The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Victory, Goes On, May

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Psychics, Hydrogen Bomb, Everyday

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Lying, Islands

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• I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

  Georgi Parvanov

  Thinking, Russia, Ukraine

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• There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

  Charles Bass

  Differences, Support, Economy

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• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Men, Political

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law.
  By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rights, Controversial Topics, Law

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite flaws, America should be proud" by Ai Weiwei, www.cnn.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

  Allen West

  Military, Years, United States

  "Rep. West fired up over government overregulation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2012.

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• Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

  Mitchell Reiss

  Thinking, Korea, People

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• [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Decision, Battle

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• I think, in fact, the situation with respect to al Qaeda, to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there even as we meet, trying to figure out how to do that.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, United States

  "Biden vs. Cheney: Battle of the Vice Presidents". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Jail, Play

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• I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

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• I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

  William Morris

  Real, Commitment, Thinking

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• We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Plot, Fields

  "China’s President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

  Prabal Gurung

  Growth, Racing, Important

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• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Self

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