If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Miyamoto MusashiRead
When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.
Interpretation
Understanding strategy means seeing through deception.
This quote emphasizes the importance of gaining wisdom in strategy, particularly in recognizing and avoiding deception. Musashi suggests that true mastery comes from the ability to perceive the true intentions of others, allowing one to navigate complex situations with clarity and insight.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing how to navigate workplace politics.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.
Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.
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