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- If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
- Swahili proverb
- Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James B. Conant
- There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet
- The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
- Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
- The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell
- All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Thomas J. Watson
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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