Judit Quotes

#1. There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Garry Kasparov

#2. I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

Susan Polgar

#3. Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Chubby Checker

#5. Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

Judit Polgar

#6. A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

Dacia Maraini

#7. Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are.

Susanna Clarke

#8. Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

David Remnick

#9. To understand remotely the omnipotence of God is to understand wholly the beauty of Christ.

Criss Jami

#10. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

Barack Obama

#11. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

Victor Borge

#13. One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

Judit Polgar

#14. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

Peter Watts

#15. I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

Judit Polgar

#16. Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

Wallace D. Wattles

#17. Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

Judit Polgar

#18. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

Nolan Sotillo

#20. I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

Judit Polgar

#21. We feel confident that, were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

Kevin Lynch

#22. India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Judit Polgar