Ernst Otto Fischer Quotes
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
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In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.
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The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.
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I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.
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In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
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After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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Charity should always be a constant.
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A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.
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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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I told Ian when he left last summer that he had to come back ready to be the centerpiece of our offense. He not only wanted it, but he came back here to do it.
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Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
