Gelfand Quotes

#1. If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.

Boris Gelfand

#2. The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

Boris Gelfand

#3. People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

Israel Gelfand

#4. My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool for political reasons, I was free to study on my own and develop my own ways of thinking.

Israel Gelfand

#5. I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

Daniel Okrent

#6. I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

Boris Gelfand

#7. They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different.

Israel Gelfand

#8. She loves me for the way I never leave her .. and I love her for the thousand secret ways she makes me stay

Michael Xavier

#9. One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Israel Gelfand

#10. It shouldn't matter when I fell in love with you. Or how. All that matters is that I did.

Brenda Novak

#11. If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

Israel Gelfand

#12. For this to happen today, of all days! It felt like a wink from God.

Robert Galbraith

#13. When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

Boris Gelfand

#14. It is rare, though becoming more common with age that I am put into situations where I only half-heartedly balance on acting and being myself...a real nice dinner, relatives, etc.

Wesley Eisold

#15. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

Boris Gelfand

#16. Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.

Andrew Miller

#17. Gay marriage will destroy the family

Pope Francis

#18. I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Israel Gelfand

#19. He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. "Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard."
I flipped him off for the "Ghost Girl" comment but he didn't notice because Lissa was talking to him again.

Richelle Mead

#20. I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

John F. Kerry

#21. The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

Israel Gelfand

#22. I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

Ronda Rousey

#23. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

Blake Butler