"Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original."

-- Mikhail Chigorin

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
“I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.”
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”
“Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Donâ€™t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
“Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.”
“You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.”
“that if you don't read nobody does”

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