"Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players."

-- Garry Kasparov

#Player Quotes #Self Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap”

Source : David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books
“The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldnâ€™t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.”
“For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.”
“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”
“Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.”
“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.”

Source : 1950 In Life,16 Oct.
“Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.”
“To understand possible means to understand impossible.”

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