Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Watson
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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Love
  • Game

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• 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
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivational
  • Aim
  • Mark

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Mark

• Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Chess

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Chess

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess

• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Time
  • Chess

• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess

• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Study
  • Chess

• I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Art
  • Chess

• It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Chess

• If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

  

  Alexandra Kosteniuk
  • People
  • Chess

• I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • London
  • Watson
  • Professor Moriarty

• I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Me
  • Run
  • Drive

• We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Writing

• Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Future
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Chess
  • Mark
  • Watson