Boris Spassky Quotes
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
