Paul Keres Quotes

#1. thoughts and words have power, and if you allow your worst fears to form fully, you run the danger of bringing them to life. As

Jennifer McMahon

#2. It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Paul Keres

#4. When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

Craig Ferguson

#5. An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Paul Keres

#6. All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

George W. Bush

#7. I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

Deepika Padukone

#8. [W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness

Steve Hagen

#9. In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Paul Keres

#10. Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Jordin Sparks

#11. I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

Owen Pallett

#12. I think marriage is all about timing.

Cate Blanchett

#13. I was unlucky, like my country.

Paul Keres

#14. A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Paul Keres

#15. What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.

Robert Morgan

#16. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Paul Keres

#17. Chess is a test of wills.

Paul Keres