Simen Quotes

#1. My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

Magnus Carlsen

#2. Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others.

Simen Agdestein

#3. No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Eric Berne

#4. Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Stacy Schiff

#5. Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Antony Starr

#6. He is power and poetry, grace and perfection, and I feel my body tighten in response to the beauty that is Damien.

J. Kenner

#7. Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

Simen Agdestein

#8. I'm such a goofball - I need someone who can make fun of me.

Robert Buckley

#9. The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

Paul Watson

#10. When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.

Hannah Whitall Smith