Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.
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I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.
There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.
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