Quotes About Opponent

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

Life's ways are peculiar, unpredictable and uncertain, just like a game of chess which requires planning, strategy and concentration to beat your opponent.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.

Because of that loyalty, and because of his history as an intelligence officer, she'd had him set up the shadow campaign staff—spies—to keep an eye on her opponent, Smalls. He'd also identified other possible assets: among them, Bob Tubbs.

Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not have death as a member. He, and all around him, was immortal. When real death came it was an outrage, a denial of the immortality he deeply felt, and the one crack in his wall caused the whole structure to crash. I think he had always thought he could argue himself out of death. It was a personal opponent and one he could lick.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

The rule for your hips is simple: if you're on the bottom, you need to create space; if you're on the top, you need to take away space. You create space by moving the hips as far away from your opponent's hips as possible. You do the opposite if you're on top, you close any distance, you pressure down; you control your opponent's hips with your own.

The fiery warrior was at the mercy of his temper and came to his senses only when his opponent lay bleeding on the floor.

sociopathic opponent is utterly stuck in his conviction that winning by dominating is all-important. He is helpless to change his objective. If you are able to change yours, you will have a powerful advantage.

IN this chapter Moses selects another occasion for transgressing the First Commandment, an occasion called spiritual pride because it boasts of its righteousness and merits. This is trust in one's own works, and no plague and opponent of faith or trust in the mercy of God is more destructive.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

taught many important lessons: to flatter one's opponent, to lay traps and to see them laid, to be bold and to restrain one's tendency to boldness, to appear naïve when in truth one is alert, to see the future many moves ahead and to discover that decisions always have consequences.

verbal tricks might be employed to trap an opponent; and the debate was always accompanied by vivid, ritualized gestures, partly contrived to mimic a combat in which one might be hard put to maintain his cool. (The point being, precisely, to learn to remain calm under pressure.)