Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.
The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.
In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived. . . The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.
Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
We are here to make another world.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.
Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.