"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

-- Harper Lee

#Winning Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Mockingbird Quotes

“It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.”

Source : David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.”
“Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.”
“Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.”
“Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.”

Source : Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett
“I think we could be at a tipping point”
“Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.”
“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”

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