Gregor Piatigorsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.
-- Gregor Piatigorsky

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A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.
-- Gregor Piatigorsky

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Continue your quest by taking the test.Â Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Gregor Piatigorsky famous quotes

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