Lajos Portisch Quotes

#1. Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

Lajos Portisch

#2. Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#3. To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters ... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

Lajos Portisch

#4. Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#5. If the outcome is the best, we thank God. And, if the worst happens, we thank Him more, for He only knows what is right.

Deepak Chopra

#6. Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5

Ed Yong

#7. Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Lucy Calkins

#8. There's a big, wet, knuckle-dragger in your kitchen with a gun aimed at my head." "Sounds like my idea of a Saturday night," Liv said.

Mercy Celeste