#tact

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with. ↗

— Debra Winger

#arm #bad #bad thing #basic #because

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#among #away #beheld #chased #contact

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#changed #correct #could #development #embarked

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#despise #enemy #him #seriously #strategically

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#absolute truth #based #defeat #false #lead

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class? ↗

— Herman Gorter

#any #class #does #europe #fact

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#been #being #closer #contact #deprived

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes. ↗

— Joel Gretsch

#eyes #foster #i #i remember #jodie

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#best #contact #guys #i #lose

I hate when people use my tactics against me. ↗