"Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer"

-- Mike Goodall

#Chess Quotes #Fischer Quotes

“Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.”
“Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Insteadâ€¦the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.”
“Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.”
“News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising...”
“My parents, and especially my mother, always made films in a very artisanal kind of way. Her office was at home. She was always filming low budget stuff and including her family inside. It was more a way of life. I related to that from the beginning.”
“Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.”
“All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.”
“The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”

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