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• The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Lying, Fire, Manipulation

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• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Successful, Competition

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• Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

  Denise Morrison

  Motivational, Journey, Careers

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• We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Taken, Decision

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• As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.

  Barbara Wentroble

  Prayer, Voice, Earth

  Barbara Wentroble (2003). “Prophetic Intercession: Unlocking Miracles and Releasing the Blessings of God”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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• Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

  Andy Grove

  Culture, Maintaining, Has Beens

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• My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

  John Maeda

  Impact, Design, Roles

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Team, Decision, Needs

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Support, Majority

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• Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Thinking, Marketing, Looks

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• There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

  Peter Drucker

  Perfect, Priorities, Decision

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• You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

  Diego Simeone

  Winning, Games, Goal

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• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Chuck Hagel

  Alliances, Agility, Problem

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Skills, Ideas

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

  Paul Keating

  Taken, Mean, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Important, Nuclear

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

  Alexander Haig

  Mutual Benefit, Long, Important

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• I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

  Bob Iger

  Successful, Technology, Creating

  "Walt Disney Extends Robert Iger's Contract Through June 2016" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

  Dan S Kennedy

  Meaningful, Moving, Opportunity

  Dan S. Kennedy (2013). “No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity”, p.74, Entrepreneur Press

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• Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.

  William Hartung

  Eye, Cutting, Names

  "Military Strategy? Who Needs It?" by William Hartung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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• So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Rights, Leader

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Long, History, Judging

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