Strategy Quotes - Page 26

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  Rachel Kushner

  Knowing, Narrators, Firsts

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• We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.

  John Lindsay

  Country, Believe, Men

  The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.

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• But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

  Anil Kapoor

  Roles, Unconventional, Conscious

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• A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

  Deborah Kass

  Self, Issues, People

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

  Vinod Khosla

  Opportunity, Faster, Grows

  "Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

  Al Leiter

  Cat, Guy, Watches

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• I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

  Mark McGrath

  Boxing, Fans, Combat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

  Frank Luntz

  Years, Done, World

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• The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

  Daniel Pipes

  Smart, Lebanon, Gaza

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• But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Thinking, Unique

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• In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

  Jeff Raikes

  Views, Years, Focus

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• Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

  Ben Silbermann

  People, Made, Made It

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• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

  Ken Salazar

  Real, Oil, Vision

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• If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Balance, Enlightenment

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Discipline, Design

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

  Shailene Woodley

  Fun, Soul, Acting

  "Next factor Q&A: 'Decendants' star Shailene Woodley". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2011.

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• A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing wit with ISIL overall. There is some sort of strategy for dealing with it in Iraq. I'm not sure there is one in Syria. And Libya is another problem altogether.

  David Ignatius

  Iraq, Isil, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.

  David Ignatius

  War, Air, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Voice, People

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• To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Fear, Honest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

  Angela Davis

  Hard Times, Justice, Diversity

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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