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“There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.”

Way Writing Persons Character Suffering Lost Loss Reader Couple Strategy Absence Literal Fiancee

Author:Junot Diaz

“The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.”

Hands Form Fighting Lines Kings Strategy Mere Chess Chiefs Characteristics Principal Mobility Endgame

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.”

Dream Motivational Goal Break Achieve Strategy Priorities Endless Mediocrity Herds Meadows Small Parts

Book:Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book

Source: Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book

“Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it”

Thinking Kind Happens Deals Worst Self Improvement Strategy Improvement

Author:Richard Branson

“Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.”

Knows Ability Achievement Impact Strategy Our Future Colleagues Faith In Yourself

Author:Seth Godin

“The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.”

Example Strategy Climate Change Jew Arguing Nazi Skeptical Environmentalist Extermination

Author:Stuart L. Pimm

“Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.”

People Process Teach Teaching Program Strategy Excellence Fishes Improvement Maps

Author:Robert S. Kaplan

“Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.”

Values Process Strategy Excellence Customers Core Consistent Internals Capability Execution Propositions Alignment

Author:Robert S. Kaplan

“The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.”

Ifs World States United United States Economic Objects Strategy Defeat China Pregnancy Economic Power

Author:Frank Gaffney

“Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.”

Sports Common Strategy Chess Rely Boxing

Author:Vitali Klitschko

“"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."”

Way Giving Looks Play Moving Certain Turns Choices Strong Force Sports Player Design Football Exercise Pressure Strategy Defense Chess Opponents Squares Multiple Traps Offensive Offense

Author:Reggie Rivers

“Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.”

Way Want Mind Looks Whole Sports Views Sacrifice Football Exercise Strategy Point Of View Chess Best Things Things To Do Offensive Similarity Reacting Very Positive Whole Picture

Author:Barney Chavous

“The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.”

Sports Team Football Strategy Defense Chess Offense Closeness Offense And Defense

Author:Rubin Carter

“A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.”

Vision Strategy Entrepreneur

Book:The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

Source: The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

“It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.”

Humanity Survival Strategy Aids Variety Addresses Life And Death Initiative Pandemics

Author:Barbara Lee

“Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.”

Moral Authority Approach Standards Universal Strategy Bars Preaching Disarmament Temperance Hypocritical Stools Moral Authority

Author:David Cortright

“Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.”

“Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”

Should Clear Player Plans Strategy Extremes Chess Logical Complication

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.”

Humans Brain Taxes Strategy Chess Simplest Tactics Calculations Human Brain Tactics And Strategy

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.”

Fighting Community Cities Crime Models Strategy Violent Tides Threatened Boston Preventing Tidy Violent Crimes Fighting Crime

Author:Thomas Menino

“Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.”

Way Mean Eye Turns Weapons Blind Strategy Threat Nuclear Decline Nuclear Weapons Tolerate Testing Deployment Blind Eyes Deterrence Nuclear Deterrence

Author:David Lange

“To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.”

“We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.”

Ifs Way Religion Strategy Assumption Old Ways

Book:Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel

Source: Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel

“Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.”

Years Sometimes Running Term Four Building Strategy Congress Four Years

Author:Artur Davis

“Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.”

Important Growth Effort Clear Focus Achievement Strategy Mindset Plus Allies Growth Mindset Trunks

Book:Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges”

Needs War Challenges Strategy Historical Nato New Challenges

Author:Angela Merkel

“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.”

Inspirational Leader Vision Strategy Inspire Others Future Leaders

Author:John P. Kotter

“There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.”

Trying Firsts Two Goal Change Quality Conditions Fit Strategy Quality Of Life Change For The Better

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.”

People Knows Years Happens Fighting Animal Millions Happened Groups Ready Strategy Focused Budgets California Animal Rights Again And Again Ballots

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.”

Believe Opinion Strategy Journalism Shocking Optimization Web Content

Author:Nick Denton

“As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.”

“I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.”

Long Book Values Study Higher Discipline Periods Lows Flow Strategy Average Favors Buying Yield Cash Academic Consistently Strict Earning Ratios Long Periods Of Time Battered Cash Flow

Author:David Dreman

“Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.”

Wells Strategy Investing Ships Abandon Investors Wrong Time

Author:David Dreman

“The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.”

Today Imagination Identity Tests Strategy

Author:David Whyte

“Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy”

Thinking Way Process Products Strategy Designer

Author:Tim Brown

“During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.”

Should Firsts Jobs Force Term Ability Results Cutting Building Victory Strategy South Defeat Congress Defense Allies Vietnam Secretary Funding Building Up Cutting Off

Author:Melvin Laird

“The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.”

Ifs Believe Character Lying Christ Identity Position Majors Strategy Satan Who We Are Can't Change Character Of God Change God

Book:Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)

“If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.”

Ifs Needs Giving Long Term Steps Perspective Strategy Operations Long Term Plot Users Day To Day Consultants User Experience

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.””

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.”

Firsts Believe Asks I Believe Answers Strategy Endure Ask Me Clients Powerful Women

Author:Ginni Rometty

“I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.”

Years Together Five Plans Built Strategy Priorities Five Years Colleagues Ibm Five Year Plans

Author:Ginni Rometty

“Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.”

Strategy Stalking Underrated

Book:Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags

Source: Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags

“Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!”

“Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.”

Organization Strategy Circles Ships Places To Go Tramps Rudders Going Around In Circles

Author:Joel Ross

“For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.”

Moral Principles Goodness Weapons Strategy Nonviolence Moral Principles Moral Goodness

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.”

Fall Successful Politician Victim Strategy Competition Inevitable Firm Continuing Competitors Employing

Author:William Cohen

“The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.”

Ifs Problem Opportunity Situation Successful Needed Resources Strategy Threat Superiors Being Successful Exploits Exceed

Author:William Cohen

“Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.”

“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.”

World Needs Used Figures Wind Strategy Complaining Used To Be Tails

Author:Jeff Bezos

“In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.”

Wells Ends Matter Use Courses Found Principles Fields Battle Strategy Retreat Contests Tactics Recourse Tactics And Strategy

Author:Terence MacSwiney

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