"Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work"

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

#Effort Quotes #Creative Quotes #Chess Quotes

“The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.”
“Scientifically, I know beginnings donâ€™t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one pointâ€”infinity. Lifelines arenâ€™t lines at all. Theyâ€™re more like circles. Itâ€™s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesnâ€™t matter where I begin. It doesnâ€™t change the end.”
“Death from sin no power can separate.”
“Love is a two-way street.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2008). “The Cupid Effect”, p.75, Hachette UK
“Creativity is a compilation of things we've seen.”

Source : "10 Smart Quotes From ‘Innovation Uncensored’ Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.
“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Source : John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge
“They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.”
“Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.”

Source : "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. july 14, 2010.

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