Ifs Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik Download Open image “If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.” — Mikhail Botvinnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Love Pieces Sacrifice
“Not all sacrifices involve death, child. As the Enapay used to say, the noblest sacrifice of all is to open you heart up completely to another person and give them the dagger with which to slay you…” – Choo Co La Tah” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share
A sacrifice is a sacrifice if someone make it wishfully, not when its forcibly taken from someone. *senora* — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share
The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
“The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.” — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
