"By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery."

-- Garry Kasparov

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“It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1957). “Autobiography”, Nelson
“Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.”
“Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood.”
“Without freedom there can be no morality.”
“You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.”

Source : Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.”
“I'm fighting myself every day to get better.”
“I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.”

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