"Energy may be likened to the bending of……" — Sun Tzu
"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger."
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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu has 407 quotes on this site.
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
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All war is deception.
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…
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More Bending Quotes
This quote is filed under Bending Quotes,
one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out…
— Sandra Bullock
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems…
— Auguste Rodin
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief…
— Sarah Fielding
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is…
— Joanna Lumley
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one…
— David Anthony Durham
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy…
— Norman Grubb
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence…
— Wallace Stevens
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O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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