Opponents Quotes - Page 8

Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

The toughest opponents to defend are Iverson, Marbury and Payton. They are all very talented and can shoot at anytime from anywhere.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.