"Let the perfectionist play postal."

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Yasser Seirawan

#Play Quotes #Chess Quotes #Perfectionist Quotes

“Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.”

Source : "ESPN's Hannah Storm on Hiking With Ronda Rousey, Watching a Ball Game With Vin Scully (Q&A)". Interview with Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 24, 2014.
“Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.”
“Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.”
“... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
“When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.”
“The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.”
“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”

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