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Opponent Quotes by Sun Tzu
- If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
- The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
- If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,…
- You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if…
- Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of…
- Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
- Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not…
- Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
- If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I…
- Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
- You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
- In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the…
- So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the…
- Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors…
- The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
- So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone…
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- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
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- Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I… — Robert Benchley
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler
- There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter
- The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while… — Cus D'Amato
- A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the… — Bruce Lee