Takeda Nobushige famous quotes

Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.
-- Takeda Nobushige

#Hurt #Medicine #Faithful

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
-- Takeda Nobushige

#War #Enemy #Surprise

One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'
-- Takeda Nobushige

#War #Way #Haste

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'
-- Takeda Nobushige

#War #Men #Long

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'
-- Takeda Nobushige

#Giving Up #War #Giving

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."
-- Takeda Nobushige

#War #Thinking #Darkness

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.
-- Takeda Nobushige

#Men #Mountain #Deer

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.
-- Takeda Nobushige

#Dragons #Soldier #Enemy

When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.
-- Takeda Nobushige

#Should #Masters

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.