Seirawan Quotes

#1. Aristotle's scala naturae, which runs from God, the angels, and humans at the top, downward to other mammals, birds, fish, insects, and mollusks at the bottom.

Frans De Waal

#2. Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

Yasser Seirawan

#3. Let the perfectionist play postal.

Yasser Seirawan

#4. When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Nicholas Lea

#5. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

Yasser Seirawan

#6. I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids.

Michael Strahan

#7. The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

Harold B. Lee

#8. Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

Yasser Seirawan

#9. The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

Yasser Seirawan

#10. Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance

John Locke

#11. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.

Yasser Seirawan

#12. As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Steven Pinker

#13. Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

Markus Zusak

#14. How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.

Yasser Seirawan

#15. it feels like her air just became my air and I suddenly want to take in fewer breaths in order to ensure she never runs out. I

Colleen Hoover

#16. I am completely half afraid to think.

Flann O'Brien

#17. I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

Yasser Seirawan

#18. Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Abraham Lincoln