Top 100 Quotes About Fischer
#1. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#2. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#3. Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
Tibor Fischer
#4. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#6. Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Urs Fischer
#7. I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.
Deb Fischer
#8. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
#9. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
Bobby Fischer
#12. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.
A.E. Samaan
#13. Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer
Mike Goodall
#14. Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#15. I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I
was half out of my head-stoned almost.
Bobby Fischer
#16. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#18. I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
Jenna Fischer
#19. When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
Bobby Fischer
#20. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Joschka Fischer
#21. Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Mikhail Tal
#22. I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
Tanya Fischer
#23. You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.
Tibor Fischer
#24. Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?
Tibor Fischer
#26. You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
Jenna Fischer
#27. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#28. I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
Bobby Fischer
#29. One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.
Fischer Black
#30. The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
Heinz Fischer
#31. Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.
Heinz Fischer
#32. I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.
Jenna Fischer
#33. We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
Joschka Fischer
#35. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.
Christoph Fischer
#36. Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
Urs Fischer
#37. Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
Bobby Fischer
#38. Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.
Christoph Fischer
#39. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
Bobby Fischer
#40. I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.
Anatoli Boukreev
#41. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
Bryan Fischer
#42. You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
Tanya Fischer
#43. As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
Bram Fischer
#44. I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
Urs Fischer
#45. What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
Urs Fischer
#46. I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
Bobby Fischer
#47. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
Heinz Fischer
#48. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.
Norman Fischer
#50. In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations.
Phil Jackson
#51. Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Martin H. Fischer
#52. The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.
John Henry Fischer
#53. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
Bobby Fischer
#55. A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer
#56. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
Bobby Fischer
#57. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
Martin H. Fischer
#58. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
Bobby Fischer
#59. This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Anatoly Karpov
#60. I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
Bobby Fischer
#61. You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
Tanya Fischer
#62. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
Jenna Fischer
#63. In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
#64. Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'
George Steiner
#65. It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.
Deb Fischer
#66. Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.
Becky Fischer
#67. You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.
Joschka Fischer
#68. Just try it, he murmurs, reaching over to cover my hand gently.
And I think, Whoa, that's never happened before!
Then: Is he just doing that because he thinks Wyatt is interested?
And, finally, this: Who the hell cares?!
Rusty Fischer
#69. I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
Tibor Fischer
#70. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
Bobby Fischer
#71. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
#72. I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
Bobby Fischer
#73. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
#74. That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face
Nam Le
#75. Louise Roth Fischer, for caring about the women in Klong Prem Prison and for supporting all South Africans incarcerated abroad.
Hazel Friedman
#76. Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Urs Fischer
#77. You can only get good at Chess if you love the game
Bobby Fischer
#78. I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.
Jenna Fischer
#80. Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#81. Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
all.
Bobby Fischer
#82. One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#83. I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.
Liz Garbus
#84. We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
Joschka Fischer
#85. I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
Jenna Fischer
#86. The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
Joschka Fischer
#87. There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
Tibor Fischer
#88. Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#89. There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Edmond H. Fischer
#90. First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer
#91. The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.
Bryan Fischer
#93. Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.
Bryan Fischer
#95. The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
Bobby Fischer
#96. I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
Bobby Fischer
#97. Keep the faith, keep the faith, keep working.
Deb Fischer
#98. Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The
Norman Fischer
#100. Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.
Tibor Fischer
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