...it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

Adjust to fit the situation.

If you understand principles, you can create tactics. If you are dependent on perishable tactics, you are always at a disadvantage.

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

The choice of methods and weapons to be used by the champions of democracy will not depend upon our wishes but will be determined by political and social conditions. and especially by the methods and weapons of the enemy.

The key was to roll with the evolving situation, and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home…if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Rather than dictating strict courses of action, we instead offer a matrix of flexible, interlinked concepts that practitioners can pick and choose among, applying them in unique ways that may vary with each situation they may face.

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that “each case be individualized.” If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.

There was a particular form of organisation most appropriate to each technical situation.

not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system.

The optimum strategy is to act as if we have free choice and to choose always that which we feel is most in harmony with the way of things.

The right method in any particular case must be largely determined by the nature of the problem.