"My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master."

-- Lev Polugaevsky

#Psychology Quotes #Champion Quotes #World Quotes

“The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.”
“The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.”
“I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.”
“When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.”
“I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.”
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”
“I listen mostly to classical music.”
“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

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