Reshevsky Chess Quotes & Sayings

It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows. — The Oatmeal

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak. — Chirlane McCray

The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic. — Bob Newhart

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen. — Werner Klemperer

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess. — Samuel Reshevsky

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W. Sill

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience. — Samuel Reshevsky

Olivia, if you need anything give me a call. I'm never far. N. — M. Leighton

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money. — Martin Amis

The only good Rook is a working Rook! — Samuel Reshevsky

...sound Bible study transforms the heart by training the mind and it places God at the center of the story. — Jen Wilkin

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance. — Orrin Woodward

Don't stop believing in miracles. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Hey, don't judge me. I was doing the best I could with the circumstance I'd been given. — Nicole Williams

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. — George Eliot

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. — Samuel Reshevsky

It all depends on what you choose to believe. — Spencer Johnson

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian — Samuel Reshevsky

You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen. — Douglas Adams