In a first, Bitcoin developers have done something amazing amid the criticism over the lightning network and issues associated with it. A team of developers has made an international payment using the radio waves on the lightning network.
Rodolfo Novak, the co-founder of the startup CoinKite sent out a Bitcoin transaction to Bloomberg columnist Elaine Ou from Toronto Canada to San Francisco, California. The current feat is quite remarkable given how dependent our current system of banking is on the internet. So, under the circumstances of an Internet shut down, you can still send or receive Bitcoin using the radio waves
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โช๏ธ โ โช๏ธ Sapere Aude โช๏ธ โ โช๏ธ
โYou will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…
the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery;
the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …
And this law is the expression of eternal justice.
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.โ
Leonardo da Vinci
โFreedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.โ
Epictetus
โThe day you realise what small, incremental progress can achieve over a period of time, you would agree that SMALL is actually BIG, very BIG !!
If you increase your daily productivity by just 1%, you end up doing 37.7 times more work by the end of the year – yes 37.7 times.
1 x 1 x 1…..365 times = 1 1.01 x 1.01 x 1.01 …… 365 times = 37.7
Same way, Financial Freedom Planning is just the beginning.
But only those who continue to go through the grind, track their financial freedom journey month on month – for years together, manifest the true power of SMALL !โ
Manoj Arora, “Dream On”
โMore men are beaten than fail.
It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or “pull,” but just plain gristle and bone.
This rude, simple, primitive power which we call “stick-to-it-iveness” is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour.
People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things.
They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy.
But that is a world away from the facts.
It is failure that is easy.
Success is always hard.
A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.โ
Henry Ford, “My Life and Work”
โWhere the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.โ
Dante Alighieri
โDo not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.โ
Plato
โWhether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind.
It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one’s mind is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching.โ
Dalai Lama XIV, “The Art of Happiness”
โIf you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.โ
Lao-Tsze
โIf soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.โ
Sun Tzu, “The Art of War, Sun Tzu”
โThe overman…
Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative.
Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment. โ
Friedrich Nietzsche
โIs it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality?
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?โ
Michel Foucault
โWhen I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled “Abafi” โ The Son of Aba โ a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown.
The lessons it teaches are much like those of “Ben Hur,” and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace.
The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself.
Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied.
Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done.
So I practiced day by day from morning till night.
At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical.โ
Nikola Tesla
โIt is not more vacation we need โ it is more vocation.โ
Eleanor Roosevelt
โWords, words, words.
Whereas one needs deeds!โ
Dostoyevsky
โIf I feel like it and if I can be bothered to, I will talk to you about the notion of “repression,” which has, I think, the twofold disadvantage, in the use that is made of it, of making obscure reference to a certain theory of sovereigntyโthe theory of the sovereign rights of the individualโand of bringing into play, when it is used, a whole set of psychological references borrowed from the human sciences, or in other words from discourses and practices that relate to the disciplinary domain.
I think that the notion of “repression” is still, whatever critical use we try to make of it, a juridico-disciplinary notion; and to that extent the critical use of the notion of “repression” is tainted, spoiled, and rotten from the outset because it implies both a juridical reference to sovereignty and a disciplinary reference to normalization.โ
Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collรจge de France” (1975-1976)
โMore men are beaten than fail.
It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or “pull,” but just plain gristle and bone.
This rude, simple, primitive power which we call “stick-to-it-iveness” is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour.
People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things.
They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy.
But that is a world away from the facts.
It is failure that is easy.
Success is always hard.
A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.โ
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
โStudent – “It is not that I do not delight in your Way, Master, it is simply that my strength is insufficient.”
Confucius – “Someone whose strength is genuinely insufficient collapses somewhere along the Way. As for you, you deliberately draw the line.โ
Confucius
โYou put a hard question on the virtue of discipline.
What you say is true: I do value itโand I think that you do tooโmore than for its earthly fruit, proficiency.
I think that one can give only a metaphysical ground for this evaluation; but the variety of metaphysics which gave an answer to your question has been very great, the metaphysics themselves very disparate: the bhagavad gita, Ecclesiastes, the Stoa, the beginning of the Laws, Hugo of St Victor, St Thomas, John of the Cross, Spinoza.
This very great disparity suggests that the fact that discipline is good for the soul is more fundamental than any of the grounds given for its goodness.
I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.
I believe that through discipline we can learn to preserve what is essential to our happiness in more and more adverse circumstances, and to abandon with simplicity what would else have seemed to us indispensable; that we come a little to see the world without the gross distortion of personal desire, and in seeing it so, accept more easily our earthly privation and its earthly horrorโBut because I believe that the reward of discipline is greater than its immediate objective, I would not have you think that discipline without objective is possible: in its nature discipline involves the subjection of the soul to some perhaps minor end; and that end must be real, if the discipline is not to be factitious.
Therefore I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment;
and only so can we know peace.โ
J. Robert Oppenheimer
โBecause I have no natural gifts, shall I on that account give up my discipline?
Far be it from me!
Epictetus will not be better than Socrates, but if only I am not worse, that suffices me.
For I shall not be a Milo, either, and yet I do not neglect my body, nor a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property, nor, in a word, is there any other field in which we give up the appropriate discipline merely from despair of attaining the highest.โ
Epictetus, Epictetus The Discourses as Reported By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2 With an English Translation By W. A. Oldfather
โWe are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about.
No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.โ
Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
โTake students today
They are in some ways freer than they were 60 years ago in their attitudes and commitments and so on.
On the other hand they are more disciplined.
They are disciplined by debt.
Part of the reasoning for arranging education so you come out with heavy debt is so you are disciplined.
Take the last 20 yearsโthe neo-liberal years roughlyโa very striking part of what is called “globalization” is just aimed at discipline.
It wants to eliminate freedom of choice and impose discipline.
How do you do that?
Well, if you’re a couple in the U.S. now, each working 50 hours a week to put food on the table, you don’t have time to think about how to become a libertarian socialist.
When what you are worried about is “how can I get food on the table?” or “I’ve got kids to take care of, and when they are sick I’ve got to go to work and what’s going to happen to them?”
Those are very well-designed techniques of imposing discipline.โ
Noam Chomsky, “Chomsky On Anarchism”
“Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
Eric Mangini
โRevolutionaryโ discipline depends on political consciousness โ on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.โ
George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia”
โWhat is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence.
It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.โ
Maria Montessori, “Creative Development in the Child: The Montessori Approach, Volume One”
โAs you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them.
This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age.
When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.โ
Emmet Fox, “The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life”
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
Jim Rohn
“Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.
Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”
Jim Rohn
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Frank Herbert
“Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.”
Marie Chapian
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.
If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Gautama Buddha
“Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.”
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Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always be guided by the light of papi’s simple way of life called by giants upon shoulders we walk upon, simply …
“Sapere Aude”
ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY
First recorded in 1400โ50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritฤt-, stem of mediocritฤs โmiddle state, moderationโ; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.
Mediocrity
Definitions from The American Heritageยฎ Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The state or quality of being mediocre.
noun Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.
noun One that displays mediocre qualities.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The character or state of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate; specifically, a moderate degree of mental ability.
noun Moderation; temperance.
noun A mediocre person; one of moderate capacity or ability; hence, a person of little note or repute; one who is little more than a nobody.
noun Synonyms Medium, Average, etc. See mean, n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.
noun obsolete Moderation; temperance.
noun A mediocre person; — used disparagingly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
noun obsolete A middle course of action; moderation, balance.
noun uncountable The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
noun An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
noun a person of second-rate ability or value
โPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.โ
Andrew Carnegie
โMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.โ
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”
โIdleness is fatal only to the mediocre.โ
Albert Camus
โIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.โ
Robert G. Ingersoll
โLife without madness is mediocrity.โ
Nelou Keramati
โPeople don’t want to think.
And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty.
So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.
Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt…
They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.
They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bearโ
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
โThe highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.โ
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
โGet off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.
Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.โ
Ryan Lilly
โThe statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.โ
Martin Berkhan “The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”
โNietzsche talked about โgood and badโ in the context of nobility.
The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad.
When the โgood and badโ of the nobility was replaced by the โgood and evilโ of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.
The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.
The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute โฆ
absolute shit!โ
David Sinclair “The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak”
โThereโs nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone.
Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.โ
Craig D. Lounsbrough
โWhenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.โ
Arthur Schopenhauer “Religion: a Dialogue”
โMediocre people promote mediocrity.
Dont hire mediocre people.
Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.โ
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
โMediocrity is never a desirable destination….
At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.’
Napoleon Bonapartโ
Allison Pataki “The Queen’s Fortune”
โWhen leaders tolerate mediocrity, itโs a cancer that spreads like wildfire.โ
Frank Sonnenberg “Listen to Your Conscience: That’s Why You Have One”
โThe death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity.
What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence?
A humanity that is not ascending is descending.
As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull.
All the tall poppies have to die.
The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame.
They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.โ
Joe Dixon “The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man: The War On Excellence”
โWe can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve.
Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity.
We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.
We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.โ
Bob Rotella “How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life”
โThe greatest enemy of enlightenment is โcommon senseโ.
In day-today life, common sense โworksโ, which is why ordinary people revere it.
Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial.
Unfortunately, theyโre hopeless at everything else.
All geniuses, on the other hand, can โseeโ far beyond the realm of common sense.
They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense.
What would you rather be โ a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence?
Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers.
Thatโs the extent of their ambition, thatโs as far as their horizons stretch.
These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as โLast Men.โ
Adam Weishaupt “The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”
โNothing is good but mediocrity.
The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.โ
Blaise Pascal “Pensรฉes”
โI no longer follow the voices of the sane.
I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not.
This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they canโt graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion—- from words to action;
from comfort to uncomfortable;
from self serving to self giving;
from competition to supporting;
to tradition to unity;
from bias to acceptance;
from me to us.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โMediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration.
For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.โ
Amelia E. Barr
โAcceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โYou will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โCaution is the path to mediocrity.
Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.โ
Frank Herbert “God Emperor of Dune”
โI’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid.
I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you.
How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?
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Plant the Seed. Make the tree grow! You'll never enjoy it's shadow! But you joice knowing the next generations to come, Will thrive under it's Legacy...
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I bet you all the “Free” Cbdc’s the governments are going to give you in the next couple of years, that poor littl’ George Orwell rolls in his grave and burns inside of Envy… because his imagination fades compared to the nightmare bound to come in a city near you !!!
By all means and preety please DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT but instead D.Y.O.R. (Do Your Own Research) and reach your own conclusions !!!
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Here are just a few examples of what that sort of total control may look like:
Government in total control
The government could not only withhold money whenever they deemed fit but they could also devalue the currency.
Lack of privacy
The government will be aware of all of your financial information, what you owe and to whom, what you are spending money on, and what assets you have.
The end of personal security
No longer can you โhideโ savings under your mattress. The government will always know how much you have and will have access to it.
Tracking of purchases
The government will be able to track everything you purchaseโand potentially stop you from buying it. Letโs say it is something the political party in charge disagrees with, such as legalized marijuana. They can track you and prevent you from purchasing it again.
Tracking pornography purchases, abortion payments, tax evasion, and more…
While you may not think this is a bad idea, what if it goes a step further? What if they think you need to eat less red meat?
Hacking and data breaches
My head spins just thinking of all the ways a CBDC could be attacked by hackers or cyber terrorists.
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Let’s make a journey back in time to see where blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies came from. It will take us back to the CypherPunk Movement starting in the 1970’s.
Cryptography for the People
Encryption was primarily used for military purposes before the 1970s. People at that time were living in an analog world. Few had computers and even fewer could imagine a technology that would connect almost every human being on the planet – the internet.
Two publications brought cryptography into the open, namely the โData Encryption Standardโ published by the US Government, and a paper called โNew Directions in Cryptographyโ by Dr. Whitfield Diffie and Dr. Martin Hellman, published in 1976.
Dr. David Chaum started writing on topics such as anonymous digital cash and pseudonymous reputation systems in the 1980s, such as the ones described in โSecurity without Identification: Transaction Systems to make Big Brother Obsoleteโ. This was the first step toward the digital currencies we see today.
The Cypherpunks
We walk on shoulders of Giants! Hughes, May, Back, Finney, Gilmore, Szabo
It wasnโt until 1992 that a group of cryptographers in the San Francisco Bay area started meeting up on a regular basis to discuss their work and related ideas. They built a basis for years of cryptographic research to come.
Besides their regular meetings, they also started the Cypherpunk mailing list in which they discussed many ideas including those which led to the birth of Bitcoin.
In late 1992 Eric Hughes, one of the first cypherpunks, wrote โA Cypherpunkโs Manifestoโ laying out the ideals and vision of the movement.
Note: We encourage you to read A Cypherpunkโs Manifesto. The Manifesto is just as relevant today as it was in 1992. This short read takes only a few minutes of your time. Itโs astonishing to see how much foresight the early members had when most people didnโt even think about computers yet.
A Cypherpunksโs Manifesto
An excerpt from the Manifesto:
โPrivacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
Privacy is not secrecy.
A private matter is something one doesnโt want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesnโt want anybody to know.
Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.โ
โPrivacy in an open society also requires cryptography.
If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it.
If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy.
To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy.โ
โWe must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.
We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.
People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers.
The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.โ
โWe the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems.
We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.โ
Electronic Cash
Although you might have just heard about this movement for the first time, you have most definitely benefitted from the efforts of some of their members in building Tor, BitTorrent, SSL, and PGP encryption. It should not surprise you that many concepts and ideas that originated from this group led to the emergence of cryptocurrencies.
In 1997, Dr. Adam Back created HashCash, which he proposed as a measure against spam. A little later, in 1998, Wei Dai published his idea for b-money and conceived the ideas of Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake to achieve consensus across a distributed network. In 2005 Nick Szabo published a proposal for Bit Gold. There was no cap on the maximum supply but he introduced the idea to value each unit of Bit Gold by the amount of computational work that went into producing it. Although this is not how cryptocurrencies are valued, the price of production (comprised of hardware and electricity cost) plays a role in the pricing of these digital assets.
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper, citing and building upon HashCash and b-money. Citations from his early communications and parts of his white paper, such as the following on privacy, suggest Nakamoto was close to the cypherpunk movement.
โThe traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone. This is similar to the level of information released by stock exchanges, where the time and size of individual trades, the โtapeโ, is made public, but without telling who the parties were.โ
Technology did not enable strong privacy prior to the 20th century, but neither did it enable affordable mass surveillance. We believe in the human right to privacy and work towards enabling anyone who wishes to claim his or her privacy to do so. We see a cryptocurrency with selective privacy as a good step in the right direction of reclaiming our privacy.
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The Art of War (Chinese: ๅญซๅญๅ ตๆณ; lit. ‘Sun Tzu’s Military Method’, pinyin: Sลซnzi bฤซngfว) is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC).
The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (“Master Sun”), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics.
For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080.
The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both East Asian and Western military theory and thinking and has found a variety of applications in a myriad of competitive non-military endeavors across the modern world including espionage, culture, politics, business, and sports.
When you start to read Sun Tzuโs words, you may realize that they have very real applications to modern life, especially if you are in a position of leadership or if you deal regularly with strategic questions.
These musings can be applied to practical problems you may be trying to solve, and they can also be good starting points for more theoretical reflection.
Topics that span from philosophy and wisdom to strategy and leadership, here are the most notable quotes from The Art of War.
Quotes on the Philosophy of War
โThe art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.โ
โAll warfare is based on deception.โ
โIt is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.โ
โThe skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.โ
โTo fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.โ
โHe will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.โ
โIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.โ
โWhat the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.โ
โMaking no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.โ
โWater shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.โ
โSuccess in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.โ
โEnergy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of the trigger.โ
โAnger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.โ
โIf your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.โ
โIn war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.โ
โIf the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.โ
โWe cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.โ
โThe experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.โ
โIf you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt.โ
Quotes on War and Leadership
It is clear throughout The Art of War that victory is explicitly related to the strength of an armyโs leader. Sun Tzuโs advice for generals and commanders applies to many kinds of leaders.
โThe general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.โ
โThe general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.โ
โThe consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.โ
โWhoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.โ
โThe quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.โ
โAll men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.โ
โDo not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.โ
โHe who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.โ
โThe difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.โ
โManeuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.โ
โWe are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the countryโits mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.โ
โMove not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.โ
โNo ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.โ
โWhat enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.โ
โWhen the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.โ
โIf fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.โ
โRegard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.โ
โThe general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.โ
โA leader leads by example not by force.โ
Quotes on War and Strategy
Sun Tzuโs strategic counsel can still be used in the 21st century. Whether you are creating a business strategy or devising steps to pursue a personal goal, these quotes from The Art of War may offer some valuable insights and guidance.
โHold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.โ
โIf equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him.โ
โThus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.โ
โThe control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.โ
โThe clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals.โ
โYou can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.โ
โO divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands.โ
โNumerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.โ
โKnowing the place and the time of the coming battle, we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order to fight.โ
โIn making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.โ
โCarefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.โ
โTo take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.โ
โLet your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.โ
โIn raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like a mountain.โ
โPlace your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.โ
โForestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.โ
โWalk in the path defined by rule, and accommodate yourself to the enemy until you can fight a decisive battle.โ
โAt first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.โ
โIf it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.โ
โIf you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.โ
โLet your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.โ
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A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity, Mediocrity and Madness, that this world has become lately copฤcel… Sad…
May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you and bring a ray of light on Your path !
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Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success.
His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies).
Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success.
He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is one of Hill’s hallmark expressions.
How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill’s books.
” The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.
Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Desire
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Mind
” You are the master of your destiny.
You can influence, direct and control your own environment.
You can make your life what you want it to be. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Master of your destiny
” When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Defeat
” Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. “
Napoleon Hill
Time will never be just right’
” When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. “
Napoleon Hill
Desires and superhuman powers
” A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. “
Napoleon Hill
Quitter vs. Winner
” The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. “
Napoleon Hill
More than you’re paid
” Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds. “
Napoleon Hill
Limitations
” Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Happiness
” An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge.
An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
An educated man
” Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Seed
” More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Mind gold
” A goal is a dream with a deadline. “
Napoleon Hill
Goal
” Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.
Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them.
If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Opinions…cheapest commodities on earth !
” We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Refuse to believe…
” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.
One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.
The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.
Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Fear
” Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.
Be careful what your thoughts
dwell upon. “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Law of Nature
” IF – and this is the greatest of them all – I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Courage to see thyself
” First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.
The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. “
Napoleon Hill
Imagination
” The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun.
Itโs the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. “
Napoleon Hill
Strongest oak
” Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. “
Napoleon Hill
Weak desires
” In parting, I would remind you that โLife is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time.
If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time.
You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions! “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Life is a checkboard
” Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. “
Napoleon Hill
Persistance
” A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. “
Napoleon Hill
Genius
” Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their
lives.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Broaden your view
” If you are not learning while youโre earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. “
Napoleon Hill
Learning while you’re earning
” Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. “
Napoleon Hill
Silence
” One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory.
It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning.
Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure.
Worry will never bring it back. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Love
” TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.
This is the equivalent of saying “deeds, and not words, are what count most. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
” Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive”.
The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their “other selves”. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The turning point
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
Napoleon Hill
One step beyond your greatest failure
” Awake, arise,and assert yourself,
you dreamers of the world.
Your star is now in ascendancy. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Dreamers of the world
” Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats. “
Napoleon Hill – “Law of Success”
Temporary defeats
” Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. “
Napoleon Hill
Effort and reward
” Fears are nothing more than
a state of mind. “
Napoleon Hill – “Law of Success”
Fears
” Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be. “
Napoleon Hill
The mind
” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.
One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.
The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.
Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Faith vs Fear
” The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Limitation
” Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Dominating thoughts
” There is no substitute for persistence.
The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that โOld Man Failureโ finally becomes tired, and makes his departure.
Failure cannot cope with persistence. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Persistance
” The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”
And
“A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Mind busy with definite purpose
” Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. “
Napoleon Hill
3 P’s
“Success requires no explanations.
Failure permits no alibis.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Success
” He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it. “
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Determination and Desire
” Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort.
All space must be and is filled with something . . .
When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Nature
” Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through โopinionsโ and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous.
Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through โopinionsโ or ridicule. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Opinions
” If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things.
Your mind is your spiritual estate!
Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled.
You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Your mind is your spiritual estate
” Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Company of people who influence you
” Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude.
If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you canโt. “
Napoleon Hill
Worthwhile objective
” Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of oneโs major purpose in life. “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Failure
” All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. “
Napoleon Hill
Imagination – the workshop of your mind
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Knowledge
” The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Ladder of success
” There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy.
It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Lack of Ambition
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Temporary defeat
” Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary. “
Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”
Love
” The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly.
That is the major reason why they are leaders.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Know where you’re going
” ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say “more wisdom. “
Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”
More Wisdom
” You have a brain and mind of your own.
Use it, and reach your own decisions. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
You have a brain…Use it!
Thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire…
Napoleon Hill
Thoughts are things
” Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
No retreat
” The mind has a definite way of clothing one’s thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents.
Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty.
Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence.
Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one’s thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature. “
Napoleon Hill – “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”
The Mind
” No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher. “
Napoleon Hill – “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”
Every man is your teacher
” INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION.
This is a handicap that may be overcome with comparative ease.
Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as โself-madeโ or self-educated.
It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education.
Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others.
Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied.
People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Self-Education
” Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom?
A Great heavens, no!
If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction. “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Knowledge vs Wisdom
” The entire world is made up of only two things, energy and matter.
In elementary physics we learn that neither matter nor energy (the only two realities known to man) can be created nor destroyed.
Both matter and energy can be transformed, but neither can be destroyed.
Life is energy, if it is anything.
If neither energy nor matter can be destroyed, of course life cannot be destroyed.
Life, like other forms of energy, may be passed through various processes of transition, or change, but it cannot be destroyed.
Death is mere transition.
If death is not mere change, or transition, then nothing comes after death except a long, eternal, peaceful sleep, and sleep is nothing to be feared.
Thus you may wipe out, forever, the fear of Death. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Fear of Death
” ‘Master Mind’, meaning a mind that is developed through the harmonious co-operation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task. “
Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success”
“Master Mind”
” KNOWLEDGE will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to the DEFINITE END of accumulation of money.
Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “knowledge is power.”
It is nothing of the sort!
Knowledge is only potential power.
It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end. “
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