"To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence."

-- Lajos Portisch

#Self Confidence Quotes #Player Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.”
“Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.”

Source : PM Newsletter, August 2006.
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
“That's no moon. It's a space station”

Source : "Fictional character: Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.
“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.”
“To see all the fans getting into it, that's pretty special.”
“The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.”
“No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.”

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