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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt -
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.
Kate Forsyth -
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
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.
Ian Frazier
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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.
Damian Woetzel -
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.
V. E. Schwab -
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe -
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.
R. D. Laing
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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.
Dan Rosensweig -
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair -
I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan -
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Haile Selassie -
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov
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If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imagination to fit in.
Bill Buxton -
I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
P. J. Harvey -
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Captain Beefheart -
After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
Garrett Hedlund -
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Charles Stross -
Chess is imagination.
David Bronstein