Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can’t just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

O maior remédio utilizado contra os desígnios do inimigo é fazeres voluntariamente aquilo que ele planeja que tu faças à força, porque fazendo-o de forma voluntária, tu o fazes com ordem e para vantagem tua...

Love spiritually, not strategically.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

To withdraw isn’t a sign of weakness… It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day...

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who’s often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.

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

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

In carrying out a peacekeeping mission where the grand strategy is to maintain peace and order by persuading armed parties or other hostile elements to back away from aggressive activities, military strength is not a...

Study the past if you would define the future.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

… the greatest mystery, the greatest wonder of creation is that we are capable of both relentless reason and boundless love … It is not about what we are, but what we can become.– Govinda...

Strategy is about shaping the future.

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

Ask yourself if I’m capable of contradictions, Draupadi.Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. – Krishn

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy’s one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is...

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes — while no becoming an extremist. … **Most companies don’t do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to...

The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in...

This is stupid.””Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and...

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

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

It is time to euthanize change management.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

reforms” that have no impact at all on the military substance of our defense.It is through strategy, operational art, tactical ingenuity, and military craft that the large savings can be made, and the nation’s military...

Oliver Stone’s strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant...

sodoyouthinkyoucouldtrustmetogotothedancetonight?” she blurted before losing her nerve. Viktor and Viveka exchanged a quick glance.Are they considering it? They are! They trust -“No,” they said together. Frankie resisted the urge to spark. Or scream. Or threaten...

The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.