Openings Quotes

67 Openings quotes by 61 unique authors

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of… — David Bronstein
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I… — Bobby Fischer
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers… — Harry Golombek
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be… — Jeremy Rifkin
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I… — Pal Benko
I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup. — Rosie O'Donnell
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other… — Bobby Fischer
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. — Emanuel Lasker
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over… — John Woolman
There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created… — Lou Engle
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings. — Vera Wang
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling… — William Vickrey
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that… — Bernard of Clairvaux
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to… — Al Gore
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I… — Steven Pinker
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a… — Sam Taylor-Wood
Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know,… — Christopher Walken
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with… — Allen West
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… — Flann O'Brien
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... — Tennessee Williams
When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle… — Kent Nerburn
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill… — Goldie Hawn

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