Quotes About Adaptation

The strong and the weak can serve, thanks to the principles of the ground.

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

A previous information allows wise rulers and valuable generals to move and conquer.

combatir y vencer en la batalla no es la excelencia suprema, sino que esta reside en romper la resistencia del enemigo sin luchar.

So much for operations in salt-marches.

A skillful defenders hides within ninefold earth; a skillful attacker moves above ninefold sky

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La defensa es para tiempos de escasez, el ataque para tiempos de abundancia.

No principle in the world is always right, and no thing is always wrong. What was used yesterday may be rejected today, what is rejected now may be used later on. This use or disuse has no fixed right or wrong. To avail yourself of opportunities at just the right time, responding to events without being set in your ways, is in the domain of wisdom. If your wisdom is insufficient, even if you are widely learned and highly skilled, you'll come to an impasse wherever you go.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Im Frieden bereite dich auf den Krieg vor, im Krieg bereite dich auf den Frieden vor.

El éxito en la guerra se alcanza cuidando de adaptarse permanentemente al propósito del enemigo.

War doesn't have a permanent dynamic; a water doesn't have a permanent shape.

When ears don't hear, use gongs and drums. When eyes don't see, use flags and banners.

Cuando te halles en un terreno cerrado, prepara alguna estrategia y muévete. Cuando te halles en un terreno mortal, lucha.

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The heading meansliterally The Nine Variations, but as SunTzu does not appear to enumerate these, and as, indeed, he hasalready told us (V SS. 6-11) that such deflections from theordinary course are practically innumerable, we have little optionbut to follow Wang Hsi, who says that Nine stands for anindefinitely large number.

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A menos que tu corazón esté totalmente abierto y tu mente en orden, no puedes esperar ser capaz de adaptarte a responder sin límites, a manejar los acontecimientos de manera infalible, a enfrentarte a las dificultades graves e inesperadas sin turbarte, dirigiendo cada cosa sin confusión.

The crux of military operations lies in the pretense of accommodating one's self to the designs of the enemy.

The highest form of warfare Is to attack Strategy itself;

Nota bene: this was in 207 B.C., and may well cause us to blush for the Christian armies that entered Peking in 1900 A.D.]

Follow the advantages and use the opportunity.

Within the dynamic of war, there's only direct and indirect, but their variations are inexhaustible. They are born one from the other within infinite tireless circle.