Pal Benko Quotes
According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.
Quotes to Explore
-
Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
-
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
-
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
-
Free love sounds great.
-
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
-
Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
-
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
-
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
-
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
-
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
-
People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
-
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
-
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
-
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
-
'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
-
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
-
Of course managers win ball games.
-
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
-
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.
-
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
-
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
-
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.
-
According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.
