Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential...
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Miyamoto Musashi
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
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Jonathan Stroud
Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
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37 Signals
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience;...
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Carl Von Clausewitz
More Quotes By Erwin Rommel
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
