"Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions."

-- Garry Kasparov

#Responsibility Quotes #Years Quotes #Self Quotes

“I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.”
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?”
“Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.”
“Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.”
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
“They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2012). “The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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