“Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.” Quote by Cesar Luis Menotti
“After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.” GivingFirstsIdeasUnderstandingTalkingPlayerExampleStudentsLessonsProveConceptsStrategyPatternsChessMake SenseVagueRepetitionFragmentedMatingVague Ideas Author:Jeremy Silman
“If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them.” IfsMovingHellRocksAssPortal Author:Ryan Buell
“I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.” SoundCasesBloodCrazyWallCrossesHauntingBendingDemonicCrazy ThingsPittsburgh Author:Ryan Buell
“The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.” IfsSimpleConceptsGoldenLandscapeGloriousMcdonaldsArchesStonehenge Author:Maureen Howard
“There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes” IfsStillsOrderUniverseLanguageCausesNaturalSimplePlansUniversalRelationMathematicsErrorsUnitySimplicityWorthyEvidentObscurityNatural ThingsUnchangeable Author:Joseph Fourier
“Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.” ThinkingWaySometimesDesireMistakeTalkingClarityNonsenseAggressionNo Nonsense Author:Richard Dawkins
“A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.” ShouldLongEnoughLettersExcitingSkirtsQueries Author:Andrea Brown
“Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.” FirstsWellsHateWrittenAgentsRelevantChaptersWell WrittenPrologue Author:Andrea Brown
“The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.” PastRuling Author:Richard North Patterson
“The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.” MatterJudgmentFinals Author:Richard North Patterson