"It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid."

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Source : "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". Interview with Karan Thapar, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

Viswanathan Anand

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“I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.”

Source : Mike Gayle (2005). “Turning Thirty”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
“The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.”
“When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the certain Islamic takeover of Europe to completely annihilate European Christendom within the next hundred years he must ensure that the warriors fighting for the preservation of European Christendom prevail.”
“Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.”
“It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.”
“Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.”
“A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.”

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