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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
Peter Thiel
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
Reuben Fine
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There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
Garry Kasparov
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Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
Benjamin Franklin
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
Benjamin Franklin
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Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.
Max Euwe
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If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Marcel Duchamp
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Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish there is always a moment of sorts where someone misses a big defensive opportunity or the nature of the position changes more than one might reasonably expect. This was such a moment.
Jonathan Rowson
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Benjamin Franklin
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I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.
Nigel Short
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Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
Benjamin Franklin
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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
Benjamin Franklin
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If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
Benjamin Franklin
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Time is money, be a better you.
Benjamin Franklin
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
Garry Kasparov
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
Stanley Kubrick
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Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Maurice Ashley
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
Bobby Fischer
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Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
Vladimir Nabokov
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I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Mikhail Tal
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
Garry Kasparov
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