"Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized..."

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Source : Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.337, Courier Corporation

Emanuel Lasker

#Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.”
“I had to find the courage to turn my life around.”
“We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.”
“You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.”
“When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.”
“I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.”
“Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.”
“For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.”

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