David Bronstein Quotes

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

David Bronstein

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I have no message.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Message

• By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Good
  • Worry

• Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Experience

• He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Responsibility

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Why

• My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

  

  David Guetta
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Walking

• I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

  

  David Wenham

• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Softball

• I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Live
  • Today
  • Career

• But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • World
  • Character
  • Strong

• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

  

  Annie Baker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Personality

• [ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Cowboy

• I think we made out sexuality changing. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Thinking
  • Blow
  • Sexuality

• I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • War
  • Hero

• The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Thinking
  • Chess
  • Essence