Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.

Nigel Short

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• Structure
• Pawn

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Alone

• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  

  Wade Boggs
  • God
  • Monday
  • Playoffs

• When annual elections end, there slavery begins.

  

  John Adams
  • Slavery

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  

  Marcus Garvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.

  

  Maren Morris

• But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Law

• Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.

  

  Joel Benenson

• As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Music
  • Song

• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Up
  • American
  • True

• There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Interesting

• Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.

  

  Aries Merritt
  • Success
  • Everything
  • Could

• After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

  

  Obafemi Awolowo
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Lies

• He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Forever
  • Hands
  • Memory

• Let the perfectionist play postal.

  

  Yasser Seirawan
  • Play
  • Chess
  • Playing Chess

• Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Chess
  • Structure
  • Pawn