"Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent."

-- Anatoly Karpov

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“It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.”

Source : Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.474
“The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.”
“There is no separate, inside self and no separate outside object, other or world. Rather, there is one seamless, intimate totality, always changing when viewed from the perspective of objects, never changing when viewed from the perspective of the totality.”
“I called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of the shower. Let me go put some clothes on.' I said, 'Hey Grandma, don't ever tell me you're naked again. Go put a lot of clothes on. Then put some more clothes on. I'm going to sit here and drink and try to forget you naked in my head.' I'll never eat raisins again.”
“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
“What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.”

Source : "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.
“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
“Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.”

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