"Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative."

-- Christian Morgenstern

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“Plant no tree sooner than the vine.”
“Life, is energy. It is the energy that makes your heart beat and makes you breathe, that causes the cells of your body to automatically grow and reproduce the moment you are conceived!”

Source : Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”
“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.”
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

Source : Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press
“How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.”
“I got it all, I got the money, I got the looks, I got the brainpower”
“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.”
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”

Source : "The Quotable Teacher" by Randy Howe, (p. 67), 2006.

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