"In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once."

-- David Bronstein

#Opportunity Quotes #Chess Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.”
“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
“For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?”
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.”
“Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.”
“Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.”
“I love playing other people's work. I love acting.”

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