"If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach……" — David Mitchell
"If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't…
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed…
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into…
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is…
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More Adversaries Quotes
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
— Eric Cantona
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Unknown Author
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
— J. William Fulbright
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