#strategy

Backing yourself into a corner is a terrible strategy, in that it leaves you nowhere to run. But it’s brilliant in that it brings out the fierce in you, because you are forced to fight.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fight #force #run #strategy #strategy

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#strategy

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #defense #evidence #guilt #innocence

Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in reach. At fifteen miles I will say, You've run twenty before, keep going." At twenty I will say, Run home. ↗

— Marnie Mueller

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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

When you know your enemy is invincible, run and hide, or may do business with him. ↗

— Toba Beta

#invincible #strategy #business

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#strategy #inspirational

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long

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. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#defeat #economic #economic power #inexorably #militarily