"Time control directly influences the quality of play."

-- Boris Spassky

#Play Quotes #Quality Quotes #Influence Quotes

“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.”
“I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.”
“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”
“I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.”
“Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (1701). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning,: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City to His Friend in Oxford..”, p.7
“I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.”
“What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.”
“It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.”

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