Smyslov Quotes

#1. A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

Vasily Smyslov

#2. Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful ... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.

Gregory Maguire

#3. Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

Vasily Smyslov

#4. In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Vasily Smyslov

#5. My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

Vasily Smyslov

#6. If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

Tom Scholz

#7. After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

Peter Sagal

#8. I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Mary Balogh

#9. My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

Vasily Smyslov

#10. The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

Vasily Smyslov

#11. I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

Vasily Smyslov

#12. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#13. Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!

Stan Lee

#14. I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.

Anais Nin

#15. There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

George S. Patton

#16. You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith ... this is peace with God.

Billy Graham

#17. The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Maria Mitchell

#18. Loving God alone, we unify our nature in single constancy; God himself kindles a love that burns but never consumes.

A.J. Smith

#19. In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

Vasily Smyslov

#20. Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Ken Robinson

#21. It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

Ethan Hawke

#22. If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

Yann Martel

#23. No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

Vasily Smyslov

#24. Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John F. Kennedy

#25. The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

Vasily Smyslov