Howard Staunton Quotes

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Howard Staunton

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• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • May
  • Day

• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Pretty
  • Church
  • Singing

• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Challenges

• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Loudest

• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Friends
  • Date

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Boy

• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Die
  • Judge
  • Islamic

• Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

  

  Tyler Hilton

• You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • Movie

• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Great

• Hey, it's been a magical year. We don't shoot foul shots like that. If we make our foul shots, we win the game. The kid made a big shot, that's all you can say. We congratulate them. It was a great game, and I think we can play with them any time.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Game
  • Kid
  • Shot

• There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Music
  • Spring

• Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Change
  • Permanent
  • Flux

• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  

  Howard Staunton
  • Game
  • Skill
  • Correctness