Top 23 Maurice Ashley Quotes
#1. Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.
Maurice Ashley
#2. It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.
Tim McGraw
#3. It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.
Frances Noyes Hart
#4. There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Maurice Ashley
#6. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#7. I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
Maurice Ashley
#8. It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.
Charles Darwin
#9. I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.
Maurice Ashley
#10. I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things.
Delano Johnson
#11. He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.
Maurice Ashley
#12. I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
Maurice Ashley
#13. Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do
Maurice Ashley
#14. Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.
Maurice Ashley
#15. Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs.
Jessica Biel
#16. His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Maurice Ashley
#17. This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.
Matthew Morrison
#18. How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#19. I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.
Maurice Ashley
#20. I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
Maurice Ashley
#21. Where there is friendship Ego can't survive but if Ego hurts Friendship dies.Solution keep Ego far away from Friendship.
Debolina
#22. I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
Terry Pratchett
#23. He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
