"It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all."

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Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.205, Courier Corporation

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#Learning Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to them that we are willing to live lives which are less dependent on fossil fuels and we'll show you that now by changing our individual life to some extent but we want you to take action, political leaders, so that we aren't living in a society in which we're dependent on poisoning the future in order to maintain present lifestyles.”
“After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.”
“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.”
“A successful business is created before there is a business.”
“All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.”
“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”
“As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.”

Source : "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2014.
“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.”

Source : Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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