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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.
Peter Thiel
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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
Magnus Carlsen
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And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe
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We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
Samuel Reshevsky
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Better slip with foot than tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
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Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.
Patrick Wolff
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
Benjamin Franklin
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I look one move ahead... the best!
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
Benjamin Franklin
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The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
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While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player
John Nunn
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Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's such a solid franchise it may even work with all that.
Peter Thiel
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I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.
Peter Thiel
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!
Wilhelm Steinitz
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred Kreymborg
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