Andrew Soltis Quotes

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Andrew Soltis

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Evil
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
  • Speak
  • Performance

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Future

• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Alone

• There is no such thing as a typically 'schizophrenogenic' (schizophrenia-producing) family arrangement, one most likely to produce a mentally ill adult from a child with the potential for the disease.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Family

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Intelligent

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Movie
  • Unknown

• If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

  

  Mary McCormack

• First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Support

• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Laughter
  • Followers

• There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Different
  • Rest
  • Financial

• If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Ideas

• ...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.

  

  G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Black
  • Action
  • Moral

• Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Chess
  • Structure
  • Pawn

• Chess is 99 percent calculation.

  

  Andrew Soltis
  • Chess
  • Percent
  • Calculation