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“Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.”

War Use Dream Jobs Winning Numbers Talent Battle Tools Financial Factors Flexibility Dream Job Scheduling

Author:Bruce Tulgan

“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”

War Certain Talent Judging Depends Difficulty Superiors Conquer Resolution Arrangements

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.”

War Talent Revolution Soldier Good Times

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.”

Source: Do the Movies Have a Future?

“There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.”

War Moments Knowing Talent

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.”

Men War Dies Talent Trade Vigor

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.”

War Problem Light Seems Action Left Speak Chance Views Special Talent Information Luck Objectives Twilight Fog Moonlight Grotesque Unreliability

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.”

War Ability Talent Making Peace

Book:Thirteen Days in September

Source: Thirteen Days in September

“We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.”

Knows Want War Courses Energy Struggle Creative Talent Cold Capitalism Communism Eras Posts Propaganda Cold War Creative Energy Capitalism And Communism

Author:Wole Soyinka