Battles are not won by strength alone!
Interpretation
Victory requires strategy and intellect, not just physical power.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cleverness and strategy in achieving success. It suggests that while strength may be an asset, it is not the only factor in overcoming challenges; intellect, planning, and proper execution are equally crucial in winning battles, whether on the battlefield or in other aspects of life.
In practice
In a business meeting to explain the importance of teamwork and strategy.
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Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
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