"When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends."

-- Viswanathan Anand

#Mother Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.”
“Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.”

Source : Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.157, Rodale
“Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.”
“I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.”

Source : "Cristin Milioti Walks On". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.
“I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.”
“He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.”
“Counting time is not as important as making time count.”

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