Magnus Carlsen Quotes
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
-
At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
-
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
-
We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
-
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
-
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
-
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
-
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
-
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
-
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
-
There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
-
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
-
I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
-
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
-
The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
-
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
-
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
-
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
-
My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
-
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
-
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
