"It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts."

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Source : Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

Mikhail Botvinnik

#Player Quotes #Class Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”
“Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.”
“Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.”

Source : Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“Most people consume information passively-whatever they're being fed. They're being fed Russian television, which tells them that in the 90s there was a terrible catastrophe, that before that life had been all right, and then when Putin came many people say, "I've never lived as well as I'm living under Putin." That's true-there has never been such a level of affluence. But now, it looks like people will have to tighten their belts, and some are already having doubts.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“I'm awkward around girls.”
“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”

Source : James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.93, Booklassic
“Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.”

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