Opponents Quotes - Page 38

• True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Shields, Protection

  Ilona Andrews (2014). “Magic Breaks”, p.248, Penguin

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• A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest." I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Views, Track

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• Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Enemy, Resistance

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.8, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Knowledge

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• Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

  Abd al-Karim Qasim

  Patience, Strong, War

  Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

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• It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

  Bernhard Haring

  Peace, Self Worth, Feelings

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Fighting, Artist

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", 1973.

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• Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Giving, Human Nature

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• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Would Be, Exhibitions

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• The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Skills, Overcoming

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• To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Firsts, Equal

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• That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Violence, Mercy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Acceptance, Opposites

  "Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action". Book by Mary King, p. 231, 1999.

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• Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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• If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Arrogant

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, People, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Military, Art Of War

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• When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Believe, Hard Work

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• In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

  Herbert Wind

  Sports, Golf, Principal

  Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.

  Lawson Little

  Golf, Impossible

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• Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

  John Wooden

  Team, Working Very Hard, Defeat

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• We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Mistake, Mean

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