Quotes 41 till 60 of 78.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
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Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
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Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
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On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
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The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96 -
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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