Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
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When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
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I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'
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My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
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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
