David Bronstein Quotes
To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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I'm an idiot.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
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Mrs. Robbins asked: 'If I am not for myself, who then is for me?'-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.
