CHESS QUOTES
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.” - Seneca
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” -Marcel Duchamp
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead, vigilance…by having to keep watch over the whole chessboard…caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves…and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life, that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hope for a change for the better, and steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.” - Benjamin Franklin, “The morals of chess”, 1779
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.” - Anatol Rapoport
In life, as in Chess, one’s own Pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him” - Charles Buxton
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” - Stanley Kubrick
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer” -Albert Einstein
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.” - Herman Hesse
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.” -Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events” -Benjamin Franklin
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake” -Savielly Tartakover
Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move” - Chinese proverb
Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!” - Stephan Gerzadowicz
When the Chess game is over, the Pawn and the King go back to the same box” - Irish saying
A Chess game is a dialogue, a conversation between a player and his opponent. Each move by the opponent may contain threats or be a blunder, but a player cannot defend against threats or take advantage of blunders if he does not first ask himself: What is my opponent planning after each move?” - Bruce A. Moon
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third… when you know you’re going to lose!” - Savielly Tartakower
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it” -Judith Polgar
Human affairs are like a Chess game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players” - Hung Tzu Ch’eng
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind” - Blaise Pascal
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble” -Stanley Kubrick
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of Chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved” - Soren Kierkegaard
When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I’m very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his”- Alexander Alekhine
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing” - Savielly Tartakover
In Chess, just as in life, today’s bliss may be tomorrow’s poison” - Assaic
Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem” - Saudin Robovic
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Somewhere Quotes 1
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” - George Moore
What am I doing here?”- Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost
Muhammad says, ‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’But don’t take that literally! Your real ‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are.Don’t misread that hadith.”- Rumi
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”- Henry Miller
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’”- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere.When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”- Rumi
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”- Freya Stark
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”- Glenn Clark
Home is where I should be.” - Isak Dinesen, Out of africa
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” -Lin Yutang
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” - Rosalia de Castro
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” - Henry David Thoreau
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep” - Chinese Proverb
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” St. Augustine
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” - Susan Heller
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” - Anatole France
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”- Paul Fussell
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
It is not down in any map; true places never are.” - Herman Melville
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G.K. Chesterton
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” - Regina Nadelson
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” - Lillian Smith
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” - Terry Hanson
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” - Mark Twain
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. . .”- D. H. Lawrence
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” - James Michener
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.” - Diana Ross
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hilaire Belloc
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” - Unknown
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”- Helen Keller
Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience.
Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.
That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”- Michael Crichton
All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we’re doing there.”- Jeff Greenwald “Shopping for Buddhas”
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”- Martin Buber
What am I doing here?”- Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost
Muhammad says, ‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’But don’t take that literally! Your real ‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are.Don’t misread that hadith.”- Rumi
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”- Henry Miller
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’”- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere.When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”- Rumi
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”- Freya Stark
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”- Glenn Clark
Home is where I should be.” - Isak Dinesen, Out of africa
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” -Lin Yutang
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” - Rosalia de Castro
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” - Henry David Thoreau
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep” - Chinese Proverb
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” St. Augustine
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” - Susan Heller
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” - Anatole France
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”- Paul Fussell
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
It is not down in any map; true places never are.” - Herman Melville
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G.K. Chesterton
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” - Regina Nadelson
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” - Lillian Smith
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” - Terry Hanson
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” - Mark Twain
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. . .”- D. H. Lawrence
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” - James Michener
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.” - Diana Ross
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hilaire Belloc
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” - Unknown
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”- Helen Keller
Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience.
Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.
That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”- Michael Crichton
All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we’re doing there.”- Jeff Greenwald “Shopping for Buddhas”
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”- Martin Buber
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