“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.” WorldHumansKindTwoMatterMovingOrderThreeGamesWinningDifficultSidesPowerfulNumbersPiecesFourPlayerPositionExpectedChessInevitableCombinationStaringInsanityDimensionsHopelessSimplestInvitationsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsImprobablePredicaments Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.” FeelingsVirtueToo MuchPiecesPositionIgnorantShadeTemperament Author:Honore de Balzac
“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.” WorldWantWritingProblemNationsSidesUnitedPiecesTeamMediaPositionEmotionalTvsGoes OnDemandResponseStartingRadioPartnersEducatedAround The WorldOur SocietyCompassionateUnited NationsRapidsEmotional Things Author:Karen Armstrong
“I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'” PeopleAsksPiecesPositionKingsAsk MeKnights Book:The Tao of Wu Source: The Tao of Wu
“I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.” GivingTryingLongIdeasMovingGamesStrongBehindsPiecesPositionWeaknessOpeningOpponentsScopeVariationPawnsCramps Author:Bobby Fischer
“Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?” ThinkingShouldCertainGamesWinningNamesPiecesPositionDutyDependsLosingFortuneChessPrimariesWin Or LoseLosing A Game Author:Aldous Huxley
“...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.” IfsFeelsIdeasSometimesHardPiecesPositionGoes OnSittingGood WorkStoppingDoing GoodBad IdeasShovels Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.” IfsWorldTryingCharacterActorsFictionPiecesNiceHappenedPositionEasierDrawsResearchBackgroundsVery NicePortraying Author:Jamie Dornan
“I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.” ThinkingWantI CanCan DoPiecesPositionProduceStrongest Author:Rumi Neely
“One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.” KnowsMenBelieveCertainLinesTakenPiecesRightsLandPositionClaimsNeighborBoundariesChecksFirmSuspects Author:H. Verlan Andersen