"Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents."

-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Chess Quotes #Talent Quotes #Young Quotes

“Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.”

Source : Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin
“The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life.”
“In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.”
“I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.”
“The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.”
“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”
“You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams”
“I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.”

Source : "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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