Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Riches
  • Precious

• I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Working

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Politics
  • Interest
  • Kid

• I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Today
  • Know

• I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • God
  • Jam
  • Oh

• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Love
  • Look
  • Falling In Love

• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fan
  • Bush

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I am the luckiest guy I know.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Guy

• I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • History
  • Law
  • Beginning

• I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov

• This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People

• People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • Good
  • Food
  • Simple

• I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Vote
  • Awards
  • Member

• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Player
  • Position
  • Losing