Vasily Smyslov Quotes

#1. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Stephen Hawking

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

Vasily Smyslov

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

Vasily Smyslov

#4. 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

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

Vasily Smyslov

#6. 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

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

Vasily Smyslov

#8. The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.

Pat Schneider

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

Vasily Smyslov

#10. Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Gene Fowler

#11. Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads

Rick Poynor

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

Vasily Smyslov

#13. The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.

William Glasser

#14. I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every other morning as I went from dispassionately watching my body heal to wondering if this time, I might have pushed things too far.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#15. I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

Missi Pyle

#16. 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

#17. Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.

Andrew Smith

#18. Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Orison Swett Marden

#19. Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#20. 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