Outwitting Quotes

• En el boxeo no se trata sólo de fuerza bruta, sino de habilidad y de burlar al adversario.

  Lennox Lewis

  Skills, Boxing, Opponents

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

  Bill Bryson

  Whales, Elephants, Brain

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.443, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tu única limitación es la que tú mismo te creas.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Limitation

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.175, Jaico Publishing House

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• ...el objetivo de toda vida espiritual es quitarte el ego de en medio: burlar al mamón; disolverlo; dispararle; matarlo. Silenciar la incesante planificación, organización, ejecución, manipulación, posesión y procesamiento"... "porque estas actividades impiden la conciencia de lo Divino.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Vida, Dios, Correr

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• Hoy, sin embargo, nos cuesta vivir porque nos empeñamos en burlar a la muerte.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tiempos Difíciles, Hoy, Existencialismo

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). "Colección Existencialismo de la Biblioteca Filosófica: Ensayos de metafísica, ética de la ambigüedad y filosofía del existencialismo", p. 116, Open Road Media.

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• ...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

  Walter Wink

  Jesus, Mean, Godly

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• Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Thinking, East

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

  Napoleon Hill

  Past, Temporary Defeat, Leader

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• cada generación idea mejores formas de sobrevivir. La civilización puede ser, en cierto sentido, un tributo a la ingeniosidad de algunos niños para burlar a sus padres.

  Lucy Freeman

  Children, Civilization, Parent

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• Llaman arte a la guerra, pero no lo es. Consiste en gran medida en burlar a la gente, robar a viudas y huérfanos e infligir sufrimiento a los indefensos para los propios fines, y eso no es arte: es negocio.

  Kenneth Roberts

  Art, War, Widows And Orphans

  Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”

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• Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.

  Jim Holt

  Dream, Mean, Common

  Jim Holt (2008). “Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• El camino del artista marcial es el camino del aguante,
  sobrevivir y prevalecer sobre todo lo que lo destruiría.
  Más que asestar golpes y tajos,
  y más profundo en significado que la simple burla de un enemigo, el Ninpô es el camino para alcanzar lo que necesitamos
  y hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.
  
  La habilidad del Ninja es el arte de ganar.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Arte, Ganar, Sencillo

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• One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
  outwitting the market.

  John Allen Paulos

  Giving Up, Fantasy, Gunslinger

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books

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• You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.

  Peter Malam Brothers

  Thinking, Games, Bail

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• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Home, Rising Up, Government

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• That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

  David Wroblewski

  Fear, Eye, Matter

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