Emanuel Lasker Quotes

Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

Emanuel Lasker

• Player
• Believed
• University
• Temperament
• Valued

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Attention
  • Player

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Dream
  • Example
  • University

• I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Best
  • Player

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I am not a player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Player

• All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Wife
  • Player
  • Claim

• Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Life
  • Football
  • Player

• As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • House
  • Player

• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Long
  • Game
  • Respect

• I don't care if you're purple. If you're making a catch or going to go down, you could be silver. I couldn't care less, if you're making those plays for the team. If you're a selfless player, nobody pays attention to that at all. White, black, silver, pink, it doesn't matter to me.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Black
  • Team
  • Attention

• To change Washington, you need to change the women's player list.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Player

• We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

  

  David Crane
  • Writing
  • She
  • Game

• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Player
  • Period

• Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Man
  • College
  • University

• I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Stop
  • Football
  • Forever

• In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Slavery
  • Order
  • Labour

• God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Player
  • Believed
  • University