Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think…
— Unknown Author
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You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in…
— Alexander Alekhine
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because…
— Bobby Fischer
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You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness…
— Alexander Kotov
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play…
— Bobby Fischer
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Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules…
— Garry Kasparov
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I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on…
— Edward Weston
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I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.…
— Bill Brandt
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Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished…
— Edward Weston
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"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me…
— Ansel Adams
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It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
— Michel Patini
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"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,…
— Sam Abell
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That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.
— Jeff Stelling
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He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.
— Graeme Le Saux
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I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.
— Steve Claridge
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I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp.…
— Unknown Author
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A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
— Ansel Adams
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Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following…
— Tera Van Beilen
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,…
— James Russell Lowell
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The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted…
— Henry David Thoreau
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