David Bronstein Quotes
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
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In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
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Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
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Chess is imagination.
