Quotes by Thinking I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. - Alexander Kotov playerbeautythinking Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises. Alexander Kotov gamestimethinking In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role. Alexander Kotov queensplayerthinking If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable. Alexander Kotov timemovingthinking Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think. Alexander Lebed think-before-you-speakspeakthinking I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star. Alexander Ludwig rocksstarsthinking I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there. Alexander Ludwig universebigsthinking To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us. Alexander MacLaren angelsheepthinking If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. Alexander MacLaren waterdeaththinking Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign, and you and I will stand there. I durst not touch that subject. Take it into your own hearts, and think about it, a kingdom, a judgment-seat, a crown, a gathered universe; separation, decision, execution of the sentence. Alexander MacLaren decisionheartthinking I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse. Alexander Masters knowssometimesthinking Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle. Alexander McCall Smith gratitudegovernmentthinking How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place. Alexander McCall Smith momentsthinking Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. Alexander McCall Smith acceptanceartthinking They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them. Alexander McCall Smith cloudsbeautifulthinking It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. Alexander McCall Smith finalsanalysisthinking The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be. Alexander McCall Smith strongpracticethinking I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others. Alexander McCall Smith rightssightthinking As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance. Alexander McCall Smith politicalviewsthinking We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters. Alexander McCall Smith foreverworldthinking«113114115116117118119120121122123»
