"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."

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Source : "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

Vladimir Kramnik

#Believe Quotes #Player Quotes #Creating Quotes

“People have this kind of concept that they can't change but I feel like change is possible. So who you choose to be is who you are and who you will be. I think that you can be enlightened in many different ways and if you choose to be enlightened and are someone who seeks out those things then you can be that and you will be that. If you want to be enlightened you will be enlightened. If you want to be an ***** you will be an asshole. But the greater scope of this statement is if you look at the history of humans, really, nothing has changed.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.”
“You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

Source : John Brunner (2013). “Stand On Zanzibar”, p.272, Hachette UK
“Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.”
“There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.”
“The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.”
“I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.”

Source : "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.
“Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it”

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