"Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately"

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

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“I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.”
“I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.”
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
“Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.”
“The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.”
“When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.”
“When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way to draw. The result was a style that implies more than it shows, and so, ironically, feels more "true" to the scene I want to draw than a style that is more specific. It seems to me that the reader's imagination is able to fill in the gaps more effectively than I ever could. Plus it's a lot faster and more fun to do.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”

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