Top 26 Samuel Reshevsky Quotes
#1. I've certainly never been dying to go to England my entire life.
Cary Fukunaga
#2. The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.
Samuel Reshevsky
#3. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
Idries Shah
#5. The more torque I can come up with, the better.
Tim Lincecum
#6. I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.
Bill Callahan
#7. It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.
Samuel Reshevsky
#9. All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.
Ray Bradbury
#10. Even if you don't win you learn. So there's no losing. You win the fight or you learn.
Renzo Gracie
#11. Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
Samuel Reshevsky
#12. When the smoothness of the pages of a newly purchased book comes to your hands, it is evident that the book is well-read.
Mosiur Rehman
#13. What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.
Samuel Reshevsky
#14. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
Samuel Reshevsky
#15. One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh
#16. Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
Samuel Reshevsky
#18. All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.
Margaret Chan
#19. I am not an exhibitionist anymore. I don't need to show of my beautiful body to anyone. I'm sexy and I know it, and I don't give a shit if anyone else knows it.
Travis Luedke
#20. Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.
Samuel Reshevsky
#21. If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.
Ian Somerhalder
#22. In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
Samuel Reshevsky
#24. No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
Samuel Reshevsky
#25. Who fancied what a pretty sight This Rock would be if edged around With living Snowdrops? circlet bright! How glorious to this Orchard ground! Who loved the little Rock, and set
William Wordsworth
#26. My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.
Well done, Ed.
Well given up.
Markus Zusak
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