"I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision."

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Source : "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.

Viswanathan Anand

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.”
“If you are inspiring others to do better, you're successful.”
“Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.”

Source : "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,
“A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.”
“There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.”
“The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.”

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