Emanuel Lasker Quotes

The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

Emanuel Lasker

• Process
• Chess
• Attack
• Remove
• Obstructions

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• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

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• I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

  

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• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

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• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

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• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

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• To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

  

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

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• People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

  

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• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

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• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

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• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  

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• It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

  

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• We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

  

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• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

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• If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

  

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• And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

  

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• Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

  

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• I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

  

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• Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

  

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• When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

  

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  

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• Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

  

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• The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Process
  • Chess
  • Attack