“Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 39
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Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Don’t talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.”

Probably apocryphal. This quotation does not appear in any print translation of Sun Tzu. The first citation in Google Books is from 2002; no citation in Google Books occurs in a translation of Sun Tzu.
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“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
Act V, scene 8, line 30 (953).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008)

Source: About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999), p. 339.

Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 69