"There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!"

-- Boris Spassky

#Doe Quotes #Chess Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”
“I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.”
“By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.”
“What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
“It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.”

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