William Ewart Napier famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.
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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.
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The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
-- William Ewart Napier
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Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
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If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
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Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
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I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
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The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.
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Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.
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