"There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget! - in chess, like in literature, "the other" (the reader, the adversary, the partner, etc.) has to be a collaborator, has to work with you to get to the final goal. We depend on them! But they also depend on us."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dumitru Tepeneag

#Goal Quotes #Finals Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
“Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?”
“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr
“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?”
“Of two Evils we take the less.”

Source : Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton, Walter Travers (1825). “The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker;: With a General Index: Also, Mr. Isaac Walton's Life of the Author”, p.131
“I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”

Source : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
“Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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