Arnon Goldfinger Quotes

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Arnon Goldfinger

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• 'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • War
  • Dying

• Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • War

• The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Red

• And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • God

• However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Organization

• In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Better
  • Chess

• People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • People
  • World
  • History

• My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Book
  • Study
  • Chess

• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Chance
  • Chess
  • Masters

• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

  

  Arnon Goldfinger
  • Chess