Philippos Theodorides Quotes & Sayings

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. — Malcolm Gladwell

General uncivility is the very essence of love. — Jane Austen

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we are grateful, we shall be glad. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut. — Jim Coleman

Previously, everything that I love was called
I, now it's
You. But it's the same thing. — Marina Tsvetaeva

In the vision of the Mohawk chief Iliawatha, the legendary Dekaniwidah spoke to the Iroquois: We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other's hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall upon it, it could not shake nor break it, so that our people and grandchildren shall remain in the circle in security, peace and happiness. — Anonymous

The greatest sin is carelessness. — Linda Ronstadt

In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it. — Thomas Guthrie

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state. — Voltaire

Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here ... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End. — Daniel Craig