Emanuel Lasker Quotes

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Emanuel Lasker

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Good
  • Long
  • City

• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Model

• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  

  Idries Shah
  • Important
  • Words
  • Attention

• Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Long
  • Death
  • Fear

• I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • True
  • Hope
  • Desire

• Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Father

• I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Done
  • Popular
  • Celebrity

• Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Prejudice
  • Commerce
  • Cures

• Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Created

• Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

  

  Max Roach
  • Should
  • Gone
  • Mirrors

• I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Wine
  • Dessert
  • Pills

• He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Experience
  • Advantage
  • Prudent

• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Understanding

• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words
  • Sad
  • Ungrateful

• An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Advantage
  • Multitude