Grandmasters Quotes

#1. Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

Bent Larsen

#2. Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Kenneth Rogoff

#3. There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

Peter Thiel

#4. If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

Michael Basman

#5. The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies.

Jonathan Tropper

#6. Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Dominic Lawson

#7. The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

Alexander Kotov

#8. The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

Alexander Kotov

#9. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Paul Keres

#10. Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

David Bronstein

#11. Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'

Melissa McCarthy

#12. Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Charles Bronson

#13. It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.

Hilary Mantel

#14. Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#15. The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Vladimir Lenin

#16. Make today the BEST day of your PAST.

Joe Goodrich

#17. I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Erin Heatherton

#18. You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

Mira Nair

#19. Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

Lailah Gifty Akita