Viswanathan Anand Quotes

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Viswanathan Anand

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Doing

• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Musical
  • Performer

• Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Important
  • Health

• You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Art
  • Change
  • Growth

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • More
  • Selfish
  • Lazy

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Tears

• I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Different
  • Protect
  • Weakness

• To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • Why
  • Age
  • Perfect

• There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Player
  • Risk
  • Faces