"We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly."

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Richard Reti

#Player Quotes #Mind Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”
“I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.”
“I was born with music inside me”
“Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical”
“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.”
“Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
“The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?”
“Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.”

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