"All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that."

-- Magnus Carlsen

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.”
“As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (1922). “Books and Habits”
“Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."”
“Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think”
“If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work. It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.”
“Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.”
“I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.”
“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

Source : John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”, Knopf

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