Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

Vladimir Kramnik

• Children
• Character
• Decision
• Luck
• Chess

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Brand
  • Lovely
  • Even

• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Team

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Culture

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Mind
  • Real
  • High

• In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Life
  • Past
  • Years

• It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Important
  • Home

• She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Wish

• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Women
  • May
  • Weird

• And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing youSome decisions you don't makeI guess it's just like breathing or not wanting toThere are some things you can't fake

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sorry
  • Fake

• I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Different
  • Children
  • Book

• I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Children
  • Character
  • Decision