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No plan survives the battle field. You can't buy what is popular and do well. -- Warren Buffett Play by the rules, but be ferocious. -- Phil Knight Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke Act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Dorothea Brande Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. -- Gail Pool Everyone has a plan ... until they get hit. -- Mike Tyson To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. --Yann Martel Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. -- Chinese Proverb Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. -- Persian Proverb Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -- Thomas Jefferson Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. -- Euripides
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. -- Latin Proverb
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. -- English Proverb As the means, so the end. -- Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time -- but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. -- Charles E. Wilson All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are near. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him, feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Keep him under strain and wear him down. When he is united, divide him. Attack where he is unprepared; sally out when he does not expect you. These are the strategist's keys to victory. It is not possible to discuss them beforehand. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War You cannot make a cheap palace. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Forget your opponents. Always play against par. -- Sam Snead The strongest of all warriers are these two -- Time and Patience. -- Leo Tolstoy The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. -- W. Griswold I work on a certain move constantly; then, finally, it doesn't seem so risky to me. The move stays dangerous and looks dangerous to my foes, but not to me. Hard work has made it easy. That's my secret. That's why I win. -- Nadia Comaneci I never like to think of the future. It comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Work your way up or rust your way out. -- Holton When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Whine less, breathe more. Hate less, love more. And all good things are yours. -- Swedish Proverb Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -- Robert A. Heinlein As long as you're going to think anyway -- you might as well think BIG! -- Donald Trump The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. -- Bette Davis Of higher value than any one leader is the cause. -- William Safire, The New York Times. He went on to say that Speaker of The House Newt Gingrich should step aside, then come back as either Speaker or a presidential candidate after rebuilding his reputation. Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires. -- Augustine of Hippo The only known cure for fear is faith. -- Lena Kellogg Sadler For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War |