Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Wilhelm Steinitz

• Game
• Slavery
• Reflection
• Research
• Chess
• Demands
• Hearted
• Entirely
• Absorbs

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

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• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

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• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

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• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

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• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

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• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

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• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

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• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

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• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  

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• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

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• I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

  

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• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

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• But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

  

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• We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

  

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• I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.

  

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• It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

  

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• My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

  

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• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

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• I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

  

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Game
  • Slavery
  • Reflection