“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
As quoted in Winning Words : Classic Quotes from the World of Sports (2008) by Michael Benson, p. 181
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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
Context: A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's initiative having missed its mark, you turn the tables around and get the jump on your adversary.
“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
Source: The Spellmans Strike Again
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 242.
“The genius of the English has always been their ability to adapt.”
“Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7
Context: p>Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.</p
“Win with ability, not with numbers.”
Quoted in Danchenko and Vydrin, Military Pedagogy, 1973.
“One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked
Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit
For one poor triumph.”
Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;
sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem
curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
Book VII, line 278 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“The ability to adapt is learned by facing the difficulties that life proposes us day by day.”
Original: L'abilità di adattarsi si impara affrontando le difficoltà che la vita ci propone giorno per giorno.
Source: prevale.net