Mark Dvoretsky Quotes

#1. A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Karl Kraus

#2. It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

Mark Dvoretsky

#3. Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

Mark Dvoretsky

#4. In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.

Mark Dvoretsky

#5. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PAIN IS VERY IMPORTANT; DENIAL IS DEADLY.

Susan Jeffers

#6. I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.

John Oates

#7. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Eric Hoffer

#8. This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

David Levithan

#9. As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

Mark Dvoretsky

#10. I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#11. You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

Christine Baranski

#12. It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

Mark Dvoretsky

#13. Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

Mark Dvoretsky

#14. I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

Mark Dvoretsky

#15. It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.

Mark Dvoretsky

#16. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Johan Cruijff

#17. I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

Mark Dvoretsky

#18. Sometimes people outside of your people act more like your people than your people.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#19. Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Marco Pierre White

#20. Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

Mark Dvoretsky

#21. There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#22. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

John Milton

#23. There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

David Hillis