"If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master."

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Source : Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Mikhail Botvinnik

#Chess Quotes #Gains Quotes #Titles Quotes

“I live for Tuesdays, and die by Wednesdays.”
“Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.”
“Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.”
“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”
“Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.”
“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”
“Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.154, Laurel Leaf
“The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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