Top 29 Korchnoi Quotes
#2. If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning?
Nancy Huston
#3. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#4. There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
#5. Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.
John Oliver
#7. The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
Viktor Korchnoi
#8. It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Viktor Korchnoi
#9. Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
Viktor Korchnoi
#10. As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you'll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#12. He's fucking nuts. I'm stuck in a house with a psychotic person and I can't get out.
Yolanda Olson
#13. You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
Kevin Brownlow
#15. All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
Viktor Korchnoi
#16. No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
Viktor Korchnoi
#17. Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
Viktor Korchnoi
#18. The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
Viktor Korchnoi
#19. It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.
LeBron James
#20. As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
Viktor Korchnoi
#21. [Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
Viktor Korchnoi
#22. The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi
#23. Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
Viktor Korchnoi
#24. It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
Viktor Korchnoi
#25. Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Viktor Korchnoi
#26. But one thing I will impart to my children is: If you're scared of something, that isn't a sign that you have to do it. It probably means you shouldn't do it.
Mindy Kaling
#27. The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.
Viktor Korchnoi
#28. As I brush my long, brown hair, the girl in the mirror with blue eyes too big for her head stares back at me. Wait ... I don't have blue eyes! Then I realize I haven't been looking into the mirror. I've been staring at a poster of Kristen Stewart for five minutes. My own hair is actually fine.
Andrew Shaffer
#29. He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
John Owen
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