Bent Larsen Quotes

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Race
  • Neither
  • Inferior

• As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Fighting
  • Open
  • Fair

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • God
  • Day
  • Grace

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Songwriting
  • Line
  • Between

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

  

  Jessica Savitch

• Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law

• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Creativity

• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  

  Mae West
  • Trouble
  • Two
  • Get

• Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Term
  • Theory
  • Method

• What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Trouble
  • Theory
  • Comprise