"Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood."

-- Garry Kasparov

#Character Quotes #Player Quotes #Psychology Quotes

“Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”
“People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.”
“Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.”

Source : Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr
“The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.”

Source : "Music, Visualized". Coast Weekend, May 24, 2012.
“If you donâ€™t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.”
“The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.”
“A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.”
“You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.”

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