"I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me."

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

#Success Quotes #Believe Quotes #Engineering Quotes

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”
“When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.”

Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 213, September 19, 2006.
“Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style”
“If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.”
“Be committed to the relationship you have with yourself. We get so committed to other relationships, but often sort of toss ourselves away. We get around to ourselves only now and then. So, really care for who you are. Be committed to loving yourself. Take care of your heart and soul.”
“Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.”
“I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about doing some damage on the periphery of our core policies.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”

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