"... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ..."

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Alexander Kotov

#Hard Work Quotes #Learning Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.”
“No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.”
“You could move to Europe." "You know, I've actually been considering that lately." Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.”
“I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.”
“We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12832, Delphi Classics
“Dance every performance as if it were your last.”
“I dont think men like a bad girl. Well, I havent had a date in a year so Im obviously doing something wrong. Its not that my standards are too high, I havent even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!”
“I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.”

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