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The supreme art of war is
by Sun Tzu

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

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Quotes by Sun Tzu

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

Supreme Quotes and Sayings

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu

The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison

Art Quotes and Sayings

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
The writer shakes up the familiar scene,
and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy

Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill

Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso

In art, the hand can never execute anything
higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein

The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein

All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho

Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho

Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength,
he nourishes himself from this fusion,
and then he rises and goes into the world,
into his work, into battle, into art.
He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion.
The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty.
Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure
in which she has bathed,
and a charge of electric joy at contact with another.
When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled,
each act of love a a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing.
Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.
But for woman, the climax is not in the birth,
but in the moment the man rests inside of her.
- Anais Nin

War Quotes and Sayings

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill

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