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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 the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu
You
Director
Fate
Extremely
Point
Mysterious
Opponent
Subtle
Thereby
Even
A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
Fedor Emelianenko
Fight
Training
Strong
Will
Nervous
Face
Calm
Fighter
Believe
Dignified
Weakness
Ability
He
Towards
Look
Balanced
Always
Opponent
Real
His
Person
Any
Confident
Then
Should
Aggression
Express
Expression
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson
Time
Good
You
Man
Yourself
Remember
Down
Stays
Counted
Knocked
Opponent
Up
Get
From Time To Time
May
Flattened
Again
Conformity
Stand
Stand Up
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
Art
Peace
Yourself
Control
Without
Opponent
Aggression
Injure
Injury
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 know what to attack.
Sun Tzu
Defense
General
Attack
He
Know
Does
Opponent
Hence
Whose
Defend
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter
God
People
Blessed
Own
Rich
Being Rich
Believe
President
Ought
Ability
Self
Delusion
Idea
Powerful
Self-Delusion
Because
Always
Opponent
Were
Being
Your
Who
Element
Deserve
Among
Compatible
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian
Argument
Side
Right Side
Take
Taken
Wrong
Wrong Side
Because
Opponent
Just
Just Because
Your
Right
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
Assuming
Alike
Both
Catholic
Opponent
Intelligent
Cannot
Communist
Honest
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz
Game
Yourself
Destroy
Objective
Primary
Name
Self-Improvement
Opponent
Your
Strengthen
Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala
Destroying
Never
He
Himself
Opponent
Your
Interrupt
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.
Athol Fugard
Life
You
Change
Yourself
My Life
South Africa
Else
Extraordinary
Spent
Out
Ring
Finding
Finding Yourself
Shadow
Having
Through
Take
Lifetime
Had
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Boxing
Gloves
Opponent
Been
South
Off
Get
Africa
Realising
Apartheid
Suddenly
Reinvent
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
Christopher Voss
You
Try
Illusion
Control
Energy
Other
Side
Secret
Negotiation
Out
Admit
Mental
Give
Mental Energy
Force
Answer
How
Opponent
Hand
Questions
Begin
Upper
Upper Hand
Gaining
Ask
Your
Figure
Uses
Right
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Hale Irwin
Never
Never Underestimate
Talents
Underestimate
Opponent
In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.
John Dickerson
Other
Way
Obama
John
John McCain
Wright
He
Forbid
Him
Opponent
Issue
His
Referred
Sneaky
Pastor
Senator
Any
Any Other Way
Staff
McCain
Former
Against
Barack
Race
Use
Using
Believed
Ad
Raising
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
Beautiful
You
Game
People
Some People
Lose
Think
Okay
Some
Merciless
Opponent
Plays
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Max Euwe
Good
Game
Will
Giving
Become
Other
Aim
Sees
Never
Checkmate
Opponent
Chess
Than
Whoever
Player
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba
You
Own
Draw
Sphere
Enter
Attack
Misdirected
Neutralize
Force
Opponent
Opponents
Continually
Confront
Us
Your
Deeply
Actually
Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
Underestimate
Overestimate
Opponent
Either
Them
Your
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
Too Much
Face
Argument
Important
Too
Side
Hatch
He
Over
Most
Most Important Thing
Without
Opponent
Important Thing
Leave
Loss
Escape
Gracefully
Being
The Most Important
Much
Next
Your
Apparent
Swing
Right
Thing
The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.
Andre Ward
Game
Approach
Be Different
Opponent
Same
Different
Might
Plan
Game Plan
Based
A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
Andy Murray
You
Half
Down
Stretching
Interview
Baths
Press
Eating
Guys
Take
Advantage
Stuff
Come
Hour
Hour And A Half
Massage
Opponent
Doing
Lot
Times
Ice
Room
Ask
Your
Cooling
Why
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
Arnold Palmer
Never
Him
Opponent
Either
Against
Rooted
Even if feminists tear down the bogeyman patriarchy and dominate men in all areas of life, they still won't be happy because deep down, they'll know it's a false victory. Achievement obtained by lowering your opponent to your standard as opposing to rising and surpassing their standard of output isn't achievement. It's mediocrity.
Dana Loesch
Life
Achievement
Be Happy
Happy
Victory
Men
Opposing
Down
Mediocrity
Rising
Area
Output
Know
Obtained
Because
Opponent
Still
Feminists
Surpassing
False
Dominate
Patriarchy
Lowering
Your
Standard
Deep
Deep Down
Even
Tear
Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.
Grant Hill
You
Sports
Win
Hurdles
Odds
Think
Objective
Part
Obstacles
Always
Opponent
Goal
Regardless
Your
I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.
Harper Reed
Technology
Enemy
Wish
Would
Never
Failing
Sort
Opponent
Any
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
Lennox Lewis
You
Strategy
Beat
New
Like
Boxing
Opponent
Chess
Just
Create
Each
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