"My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian"

-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Style Quotes #Chess Quotes

“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”
“Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.”

Source : Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.358, Faber & Faber
“Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”
“Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.”
“It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.”

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