Book Quote by Magnus Carlsen

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea…

— Jennifer Shahade

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments,…

— Christopher Zeeman

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

— Donald Rumsfeld

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence…

— Milan Kundera

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them…

— Lu Xun

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything…

— Francois Rabelais

I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed…

— Tommy Lasorda

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

— Mason Cooley