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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• Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

  

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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.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
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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.

  

  Gary Lucas
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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.

  

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

  

  Xavier Rudd
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  • Young
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• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
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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!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
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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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Socialism

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

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
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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.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
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• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poet
  • Invisible
  • Priest

• 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.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • 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.

  

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

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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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.

  

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

  

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• People are decisions and actions.

  

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• And there shall be for thee all soft delightThat shadowy thought can win,A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,To let the warm Love in!

  

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• Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Education
  • Burden
  • Non-retention

• The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Problem
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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