Best Positions Thoughts
441 Positions quotes by 389 unique authors
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Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players…
— Alexander Kotov
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Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a…
— Alexander Kotov
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In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.
— Leonid Shamkovich
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Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us ...…
— John P. Kotter
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Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really…
— Levon Aronian
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I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
— Gustav Heinemann
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People…
— William Blum
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One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic of…
— Robert Audi
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There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need…
— Ben Huh
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I was a very introverted individual and this became an important outlet for me to express myself, to communicate, to take positions, make statements, take…
— Ed Paschke
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In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and…
— Nelson Mandela
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Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred…
— Ed Seykota
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Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal…
— Cass Sunstein
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Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated…
— Deborah Tannen
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How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He…
— John Bevere
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On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more…
— Peter Greenaway
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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while…
— Stockwell Day
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science,…
— Kirk J. Schneider
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Because their bones are growing, they can only sleep in certain positions, obviously. The crucifix and the swastika tend to be the most popular. Sometimes…
— Dylan Moran
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There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!
— Eddie Izzard
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Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in…
— Hans Kmoch
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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