"The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly"

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Source : Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster

Irving Chernev

#Winning Quotes #Games Quotes #Chess Quotes

“When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love”
“It opens Wednesday or Friday.”
“Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.”
“I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.”

Source : "Keira Knightley Engaged: Actress Talks Marriage In ‘Vogue’", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2012.
“We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.”
“It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.”
“There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.”
“Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.”

Source : FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 22, 2014

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