#adversary

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#against #art #attention #care #consists

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. ↗

— George Michael

#degree #drove #fact #father #fought

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#after #changed #every #forward #gym

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#aggression #being #defeat #everything #fiery

You have to work more than your adversary. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#more #than #work #you #your

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#been #conditioned #passing #see #time

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #him #his #king #legally

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #captured #his #king #man

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#lessons #life #mother #phyllis-mcginley #understand