Averbakh Chess Quotes & Sayings

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix. — Ron Rice

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. — Henry Louis Gates

Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you'll find a light to shine your way through. — Melissa De La Cruz

How many words grace the pages of this book!
They are supposed to bestir memory. As if words could remember!
For words are miserable mountain climbers and miserable miners of meaning. They do not retrieve the hidden treasures from the heights or dredge them from the depths!
But there is a living commemoration that softly strokes everything worthy of remembering with its caress. And when a red-hot flame leaps forth, poignant and piercing, from such retrospective ash, and you fix your gaze upon it, as if gripped by its magic spell, then...
But how with a shaky hand and coarse writing instrument can one possibly inscribe oneself in such pure remembrance, other than to stain these white unassuming pages? — Franz Kafka

While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary. — David Boies

Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see. — Puff Daddy

I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home. — Jake Busey

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. — John Henry Newman

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology. — Yuri Averbakh

Botvinnik was a killer in chess. — Yuri Averbakh

There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it's Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado. — Brian Ross