"Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish; there is always a "moment" of sorts where someone misses a big defensive opportunity or the nature of the position changes more than one might reasonably expect. This was such a "moment"."

-- Jonathan Rowson

#Opportunity Quotes #Games Quotes #Play Quotes

“No matter how often you see or talk to someone, no matter how much you know them or don't know them, you always fill up some space in their lives that can't ever be replaced the right way again once you leave it.”

Source : John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.”
“We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.”
“The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. Truth is God's tracks. It's His trail, His path, but it leads to what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy to know where God's been, but true God chasers are not content just to study God's trail, His truths; they want to know Him. They want to know where He is and what He's doing right now.”
“As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.”
“Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.”
“The business always gets in the way of basketball.”
“I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.”

Source : "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.

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