Direct Approach Quotes

• En estrategia, el camino más largo suele ser el más corto: una aproximación directa al objeto agota al atacante y endurece la resistencia por compresión, mientras que una aproximación indirecta afloja el agarre del defensor al alterar su equilibrio.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Power, History

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• In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

  Bill Parcells

  Circles, People, Leader

  Harvard Business Review, Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joe Girardi (2018). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)”, p.48, Harvard Business Press

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• It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.

  Frank Moore Cruz

  Biblical, Thinking, Building Up

  Fuente: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.

  Ernst Stuhlinger

  Strong, Motivation, Men

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• Esta elevada proporción de campañas decisivas de la historia, cuya importancia se ve reforzada por la rareza comparativa del enfoque directo, refuerza la conclusión de que el indirecto es, con mucho, la forma de estrategia más esperanzadora y económica.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hopeful, Campaigns

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• En nuestra larga y obsesiva pasión por la juventud, hemos evitado -más que ninguna otra sociedad moderna- el acercamiento directo a la edad y a la muerte negándolas de palabra, de hecho y -sobre todo- de valor.

  Marya Mannes

  Pasión, Largo, Morir

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• ... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Life, Reality, Earth

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• I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

  Jurgen Teller

  Want, Sides, Honest

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