Quotes About Adversary

Crush the enemy" is a key strategic tenet of Sun-tzu, the fourth-century-B.C. author of The Art of War. The idea is simple: Your enemies wish you ill.

Instead of internalizing a bad situation, externalize it and face your enemy. It is the only way out.

Your first task as a strategist is to widen your concept of the enemy, to include in that group those who are working against you, thwarting you, even in subtle ways.

The essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps. It is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than your enemy does...True strategy is being able to do strategy A, B, or C, depending on the circumstances.

To separate yourself from the mechanical and reactive types, you need to get rid of a common misconception: the essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps; it is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than the enemy does.

One master said, "He doesn't just look for the best move. He looks for the move that will disturb the man he is playing.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

You're not my enemy, but your Empire is.

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

He was a foe man worthy of her steel.

Every story needs a villain, she said grimly.

Aquí, el sexo no tiene nada que ver con el placer, sólo con el odio. Es una manera de humillar y desmoralizar al adversario.

however, the reflexive image of the Enemy creates destructive hatred between individuals and between groups. Although these individuals or groups may feel liberated from restraints against attacking the supposed adversary, such people have actually surrendered their freedom of choice, abdicated their rationality, and are now the prisoners of a primal thinking mechanism.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

The most dangerous enemy is the one within.

Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.

There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the argument of a heavily directed club.

Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.

Hostis humani generis',

Know your enemy," my mother once told me. "Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.