“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.” MayArtEndsEarthUsedOrderFightingHeavenSunFourReturnNeededVictoryBattleMoonFlowRiversDirectSeasonsMethodSecureStreamsMartial ArtsTacticsJoiningPassing AwayHeaven And EarthUnendingIndirectFour Seasons Book:The Art of War Source: The Art of War
“I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.” IfsStillsPlayUsedOpportunityFiveSixSeasons Author:Steve Finley
“You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.” PeopleBelievePersonsI CanDifferentReasonUsedTeachLessonsSeasonsUsed To BeWow Author:Selena Gomez
“It's a little different being the older guys on the team. We are going to help get the young guys get comfortable. We'll have to get them used to what they will face out there this season. There are some good guys out there. They know what they have to do to win.” KnowsLittlesDifferentHelpingFacesYoungUsedGuyWinningTeamComfortableSeasonsTigersGood GuyLsuYoung GuysOlder Guys Author:Andrew Stevenson
“I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.” TryingFirstsRealEndsHardPlayUsedGamesWeekMonthsTerribleBaseballSeasons Author:Lou Gehrig
“I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.” LittlesLongStillsHomeUsedHateLostHairLong TimeSeasonsI HateCamerasFishesTapeSixtyMobileRogerMicrophonesGoing HomeRecordersUsed To LoveBallparks Author:Hank Aaron
“Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.” PeopleMenHardUsedFunGroupsTeamSeasonsWork OutWorking ItMore TimeConditioningPre Season Author:Colin Kazim-Richards
“My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV show, that means if you have a big funny or smart idea for an episode or a scene or a joke, go for it. Don't save it for another season or another episode, because you may not have the right time again. It's good advice for television, but truly stellar advice for eating crabs.” IfsWayFirstsMayMeanIdeasShowsBigsUsedAdviceTelevisionTvsSceneEatingSmartJokesSeasonsGrandfatherEpisodesTv ShowsRight TimeMy GrandfatherGood AdviceCrabsStellarAlways Eating Author:Jonathan Groff
“I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.” LongSchoolUsedSeaSeasonsMovedDistanceRoughSwimSwimmingPoolLong DistanceDivingI Love Swimming Author:Jo Brand
“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” UsePastUsedAcceptingSeasonsPressureCracksClayDrowningDrought Author:James A. Baldwin
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."” ThinkingGivingMaySeemsEarthFacesUsedSunWindMastersLoversOffersBirdRedRainCrossesSeasonsResponseSeedsCosmicSecrecyNestsMortgageBorrowedFloweringCreeksTenantsDelinquents Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.” HumansKindUsedPassionStrongAnimalHalfSpeechSeasonsExcitedAll KindsRhythmTriumphToneAncestorPrimalRivalryCourtshipStrong Passion Author:Oliver Sacks
“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.” PeopleWayUseUsedLove IsTasteSeasonsSugarSalt Author:Vera Nazarian
“When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.” ThinkingWayLittlesFactsUsedEnjoyRoomsSilenceGoneCuttingMissingBabySeasonsFruitCuriousRanPrivacyAssociationOrangeCeremonyJuiceIndulgeDessertIndulge InProceeding Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.” WayFirstsI CanMomentsUsedAirReturnFlowSeasonsForgottenSmellTonightScentShifting Author:Ali Smith
“Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.” KnowsWantYearsLooksStillsI CanTwoDifferentPlayBigsUsedGuyThreeGamesWinningLostGoalTeamCoupleYears AgoSeasonsDefenseCupsScoreHockeySparksThree YearsDetroitStanleyGreat TeamStanley Cup Author:Peter Bondra
“I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.” PeopleWayHardShowsWantedUsedFoundBitsSeasonsJust OneGoodbyeEpisodesChokeSaying GoodbyeHard To Say Goodbye Author:Michael Easton
“Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.” WayPlayUsedNextGamesSportsFootballReadyLosingSeasonsNflHinduismBest FootballLosing A GameNext Play Author:Troy Aikman
“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.” UsedBlackTermStreetsHairWallSeasonsChristmasOfficialsHolidayShoppingThanksgivingFridayThanksgiving HolidayRetailersBad HairChristmas ShoppingBlack FridayBad Hair Day Author:Evan Davis
“When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.” YearsLittlesUsedWinningPlayerBasketballSeasonsHistoricalCoachesNbaPlayoffs Author:Red Auerbach
“Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.” LittlesArtImportantUsedArtistFourCarMaterialsWallCapableAspectGardenSeasonsStructureComplexesIncludingStudiosExtremesWeatherBlockDesertLandscapeParadiseThickConcreteProtectedHarshSculptureMaintenanceMasonryIdahoFour SeasonsExtreme WeatherWithstanding Author:Tom Kundig