Quotes & Sayings About Winning Hearts And Minds

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds. — Jeff Atwood

Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts. — Stephen Denning

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work. — Paul Myers

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people. — Imran Khan

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 definite measure of success; neither could material contribution alone guarantees the "winning of the hearts and minds" of the people. What appears to be important is the day-to-day conduct of the peacekeepers on the ground; those who uphold the principles of neutrality and impartiality, as well as those who are able to carry all aspects of its operational duties exceptionally. — Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

The day we live in fear and allow our minds and hearts to worry about situations that may never occur is a day he is winning. These moments of fret and hopelessness are a complete waste of my precious time and my precious life and marriage. The same is true for your life, my friend. We are experiencing restoration, and we needn't look beyond God for our truth and courage. — Cindy Beall

Amid the American military "surge" in Iraq in 2006, the U.S. commander in chief, General David Petraeus, ordered his senior officers to read Twenty-Seven Articles so that they might gain clues on winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Presumably skipped over was Lawrence's opening admonition that his advice applied strictly to Bedouin - about 2 percent of the Iraqi population - and that interacting with Arab townspeople "require[s] totally different treatment. — Scott Anderson

He got up in front of the room and started telling us that we were doing things all wrong. He told us we should be winning their hearts and minds instead of killing them. — Chris Kyle

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds. — Conor Oberst

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts. — Ron Kaufman

It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds ... — Anna Karina

The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right. — Noam Chomsky