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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:15 am

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:54 pm

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
Charles Victor Cherbuliez
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:36 pm

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:05 pm

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:14 pm

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:10 pm

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:33 am

"God,

Please put a guard at my mouth,
love in my heart
and calm in my mind.

Amen"

Julie Lepianka - February 2009
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:20 am

"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."
Zhuge Liang
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:54 am

"Therefore I have heard of military operations that were clumsy but swift, but I have never seen one that was skillful and lasted a long time. It is never beneficial to a nation to have a military operation continue for a long time."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Some win through speed, even if they are clumsy."
Cao Cao
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:12 am

'The "mountain-sea" spirit means that it is bad to repeat the same thing several times when fighting the enemy. There may be no help but to do something twice, but do not try it a third time. If you once make an attack and fail, there is little chance of success if you use the same approach again. If you attempt a technique which you have previously tried unsucessfully and fail yet again, then you must change your attacking method.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains. You must research this deeply.'
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book Of Five Rings
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:53 am

"When strong, appear weak. Brave, appear fearful. Orderly, appear chaotic. Full, appear empty. Wise, appear foolish. Many, appear few. Advancing, appear to retreat. Moving quickly, appear slow. Taking, appear to leave. In one place, appear to be in another."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:05 am

‘To overcome the enemy means to think yourself into the enemy’s position. In the world people tend to consider a robber trapped in a house a fortified enemy. However, if we think of “becoming the enemy,” we feel that the whole world is against us and that there is no escape. He who is shut inside is a pheasant. He who enters to arrest is a hawk. You must appreciate this.

In large-scale strategy, people are always under the impression that the enemy is strong, and tend to become cautious. But if you have good soldiers, and if you understand the principles of strategy, and know how to beat the enemy, there is nothing to worry about.

In single combat also, you must put yourself in the enemy’s position. If you think, “Here is a master of the Way, who knows the principles of strategy,” then you will surely lose. You must consider this deeply.’

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book Of Five Rings
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:26 am

"To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity."
Zhuge Liang
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:01 am

Psalm 117 (New International Version)

1 Praise the LORD, all you nations;
extol him, all you peoples.

2 For great is his love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD.
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:56 am

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:04 am

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:04 am

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:09 am

"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things."
Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:35 am

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:54 am

"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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