Quotes About Adversary

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

Offensive Takeaway Point: We should look for a way to stop responding to initiatives of the adversary and start behaving in such a way that they have to figure out how to respond to us. Take the initiative.

A superhero defends what is just; a villain defends what is theirs.

To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Whether we like it or not, it really is a jungle out there in the world of business, and it's crawling with predators. In my work I often use the image "dance with the tiger," because the tiger is viewed or even worshiped around the world as the ultimate predator. To dance well—to negotiate well—we must hear the music, we must feel the music, we must be tuned in to our partner—our "adversary"—at all times,

if our own mission and purpose is too cloudy, we make it difficult for our adversary to make a decision? The same thing goes with questions.

When the going gets tough in a negotiation, your biggest challenge will be your ability to nurture your adversary in spite of everything else going on.

There can be no saving of the adversary emotionally, intellectually, financially, or on any level. No. None.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.

When you begin any new negotiation or find yourself losing control of an ongoing negotiation, you return to—what? Your mission and purpose. And where is your mission and purpose set? In your adversary's world. And what is embedded deep within your adversary's world? Their pain. When in doubt, return to the pain. And always nurture, because without it, the pain may simply be too much.

Making decisions based on a sense that the adversary seeks your friendship is misguided. They would much prefer your effectiveness.

The only agenda that is valid for purposes of negotiation is the one that has been negotiated with the adversary.

your adversary is building your positive expectations to close the deal. If you buy into these statements, he'll move right in and take the advantage.

In any negotiation, where do we want to spend as much time as possible? In the adversary's world.

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.

In both domestic and international law, as Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover dryly remarked in their book on forensic anthropology, 'lawyers tend to recruit scientists for courtroom appearances much like the way the police shop for attack-dogs – they look for signs of good breeding coupled with a willingness to take a bite out of an adversary.'20

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

New Testament presents us with not two but three agencies: God, the human being, and an Enemy

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.