"Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan."

-- Alexander Alekhine

#Player Quotes #Chess Quotes #Logical Quotes

“And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.”
“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”
“My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.”
“Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...”
“Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.”
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
“The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.”
“New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.”

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