"It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material."

-- Efim Geller

#Sacrifice Quotes #Player Quotes #Chess Quotes

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
“The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.”

Source : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.”
“Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.”

Source : "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.
“Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.”
“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.”
“When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.”
“Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media

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