Be prepared Quote by Nigel Short Download Open image “Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.” — Nigel Short ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be prepared Chess People Prepared Ruthless
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly. — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from my dad. Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned from my dad is how to be prepared at all… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Wherever you escape, the truth will find you! Always be prepared to meet with it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's ed kid,… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them. — Herb Brooks Copy Share Image
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go… — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
