All the great captains have ...

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Quotes from the same author

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.