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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
Stanley Kubrick
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
Garry Kasparov
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Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
Benjamin Franklin
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Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.
Mikhail Tal
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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
Max Euwe
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets
Benjamin Franklin
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I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
Peter Thiel
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A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin
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He who knows most believes the least.
Henry Thomas Buckle
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
Benjamin Franklin
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Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
Viswanathan Anand
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
Benjamin Franklin
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The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.
Boris Spassky
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky
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You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Benjamin Franklin
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It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
Lord Dunsany
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Praise little, dispraise less.
Benjamin Franklin
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In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
Pal Benko
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