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• It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, Knowing, African American

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

  Jean Ziegler

  Hierarchy, Corporations, Profit

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• The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Use, Imagery, Strongest

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

  Henry Sy

  Real, Shopping, Together

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• We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun

  Peter Senge

  Fun, Thinking, Essence

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• Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

  William Safire

  President, Principles, Different

  "The Right Resolution" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 17, 2003.

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• I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

  Tom Welling

  Growing Up, Play, Trying

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• Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, Night

  "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

  Jamais Cascio

  Stress, Turns, Foresight

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• Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

  Jamais Cascio

  Winning, Trying, Littles

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• Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

  Jamais Cascio

  Tunnels, Wind, Testing

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• The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Warrior, Men, Overcoming

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Apology, Should Have

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• Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Running, Country, People

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• You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

  Stuart McMillan

  Goal, Mind, Waste

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• We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Bridges, Long

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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• Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

  Gavin de Becker

  Character, Decision, Social

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

  John P. Kotter

  Creating, People, Empowering

  John P. Kotter (2014). “Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World”, p.60, Harvard Business Review Press

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• If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.

  Scott Aaronson

  Symphony, Appreciate, Creative

  "Reasons to Believe". Personal blog post, www.scottaaronson.com. September 04, 2006.

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• Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Moving, Community, Inspire

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• To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Winning, Compromise

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• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Campaigns, Way

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• The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Team, Winning

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• The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

  Steve Ballmer

  Rocks, Way, Execution

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• The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

  Veronica Roth

  Pessimism, Officials

  Source: collider.com

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