"What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him."

-- Magnus Carlsen

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“I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion”

Source : Francis Kingdon Ward, John Duncan Vaughan Campbell Cawdor (5th Earl of) (1926). “The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges”
“I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.”
“I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...”
“Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.”
“Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.”

Source : "Katherine Waterston on navigating the controlled chaos of ‘Inherent Vice’". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. December 17, 2014.
“Last year I was the favorite going into the world champs in Beijing, but I felt like I had to do something phenomenal in order to win. Instead of just having fun and competing, it became "I want to win so bad." But the person who wants it the most doesn't win. It's the person who executes. I still look back on that 200-meter race and say what the hell happened? I wasn't hurt, I wasn't sick, the conditions were perfect, and I ran like total crap.”

Source : Source: www.mensjournal.com
“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”
“Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.”

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