Korchnoi Viktor Quotes & Sayings

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it. — Kyoichi Katayama

When two or more of their lighthuggers met, they would compare and update their respective nomenclature tables. If the first ship had assigned names to a group of worlds and their associated geographical features, and the second ship had no current entries for those bodies, it was usual for the second ship to amend its database with the new names. They might be flagged as provisional, unless a third ship confirmed that they were still unallocated. — Alastair Reynolds

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years. — Viktor Korchnoi

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors. — Viktor Korchnoi

I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go. — Choi Minho

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. — Viktor Korchnoi

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock. — Viktor Korchnoi

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true. — Patricia A. McKillip

I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness away.
How quaint.
How very quaint.
Like believing some things last forever.
A tear. As if that could make a difference. — Mary E. Pearson

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. — Tom Robbins

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you. — Jill Soloway

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity. — Edward Heath

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections. — Jed S. Rakoff

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand. — Viktor Korchnoi

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love. — Herbie Mann

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed. — Viktor Korchnoi

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi

The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection. — Viktor Korchnoi

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow. — Viktor Korchnoi

[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma. — Viktor Korchnoi

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board. — Viktor Korchnoi

Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today. — Billy Graham

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game. — Viktor Korchnoi

Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found ... — Viktor Korchnoi

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness — Viktor Korchnoi

It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication! — Viktor Korchnoi

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat. — Viktor Korchnoi

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. — Nathaniel Branden

I have sold my soul to the devil. — Gene Simmons

I don't study; I create. — Viktor Korchnoi

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. — Charles Jencks

The Vatican is an organization that excommunicates women for attempting to become priests13 but does not excommunicate male priests for raping children.14 It excommunicates doctors who perform abortions to save a mother's life - even if the mother is a nine-year-old girl raped by her stepfather and pregnant with twins15 - but it did not excommunicate a single member of the Third Reich for committing genocide. — Sam Harris