Opponents Quotes - Page 5

• Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

  Marvin Gaye

  Mean, Negotiation, Marvin

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• People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blow, People, Mind

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• I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Boys, Suffering

  Nelson Mandela (2008). “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Errors, Ego

  ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

  Emma Goldman

  Weakness, Fairness

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.689, Cosimo, Inc.

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• the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Anger, People

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.510, Penguin

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• In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Winning, Tactics

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• If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered

  Dan Millman

  Doubt, Faces, Just One

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• Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

  Ann Coulter

  Emotion, Argument, Formidable

  "Ann Coulter Defends Controversial Comments About Single Mothers". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Eye, Aviation, Combat

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• Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

  Robert Nozick

  Trying, Might, Prove

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  Jesse Helms

  Winning, Secret, Robins

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• Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

  Herbert Hoover

  Carpe Diem, History, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Museums, Election, Found

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• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Frustration, Games, Chess Game

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

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• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Made, Cases

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Cheating, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage

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• In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Years, Inspirational Soccer

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• The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

  Chuck Noll

  Winning, Keys, Looks

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Block

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• I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Organization, Disrespect

  "Speech should be required reading" by Susan Crowell, www.farmanddairy.com. August 4, 2005.

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