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“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”

Form Economic Military Approach Direct Strategy Campaigns Conclusion Proportion Hopeful Significance Indirect Rarity Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.”

People Ends Found Leader Clear Approach Direct Valuable Circles Soap Direct Approach

Book:HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

Source: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”

Long Facts Age Passion Modern Dying Youth Approach Direct Aging Avoided Obsessive Modern Society Direct Approach

Author:Marya Mannes

“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”

Life Reality Earth Approach Ordinary Direct Universal Surface Realism Universality Direct Approach

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.”

Want Sides Subjects Honest Approach Direct Sly Humanness Direct Approach

Author:Jurgen Teller

“It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.”

Thinking Doe Literature Building Approach Direct Insight Layers Biblical Building Up Direct Approach

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.”