"A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.."

-- Garry Kasparov

#Mother Quotes #Games Quotes #People Quotes

“Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.”
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
“Donâ€™t ask a writer what heâ€™s working on. Itâ€™s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.”
“If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.”
“'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 20, 2013.
“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”
“Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.”
“It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day on it. They still couldn't get President Obama out of Bill Clinton's shadow.”

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