#strategy

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#in the past #jethro #living #past #poker

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#being #decisions #extreme #heard #impose

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#anger #frustration #jealousy #strategy #surprise

Study the past if you would define the future. ↗

— Confucius

#future #history #learning #moving-forward #past

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

who wishes to fight must first count the cost ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms. ↗

— Carl von Clausewitz

#philosophy #strategy #experience