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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Benjamin Franklin
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My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon
Raymond Roussel
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Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
Jacques Mieses
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp
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I have a love for astronomy Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.
Viswanathan Anand
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Curiously enough, one cannot read a book one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
Charles Jaffe
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The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.
Alexander Kotov
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Benjamin Franklin
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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
William Ewart Napier
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Benjamin Franklin
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin
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Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
Natan Sharansky
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We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
Peter Thiel
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If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
Peter Thiel
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For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The Magician of Riga rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
Garry Kasparov
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
Bobby Fischer
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Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
Peter Thiel
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I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.
Maurice Ashley
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Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
Peter Thiel
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Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
Peter Thiel
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