A Quote by Sun Tzu

All battles are won before they start. — © Sun Tzu
All battles are won before they start.
I'd like to think that I'm a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life... we have to fight our battles - our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles - and we're focused.
I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.
Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
Most battles are won before they are ever fought.
A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.
Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.
Everyone on the grid gets nervous before a Formula 1 race. It's just how you manage it. It's impossible not to be a bit nervous before a Formula 1 start or even before a World Series start. You have nerves. The thing is, you know how to control them.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.
We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.
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