In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Acting is constant exploration.
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
I'm not very good at strategizing.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.