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Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

May Said Play Situation Enemy Taken Pieces Captured Pawns

Book:The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

Source: The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

“People seek to put you in an off-balance situation so they can get to you. Psychic people, people who meditate, are more susceptible; they are more open and sensitive. It is easier to jam them.”

People Situation Balance Easier Sensitive Psychics Jam Susceptible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.”

People Ifs Want Looks Hard Might Attention Situation Higher Mirrors People In Your Life Blocked

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.”

Feels Loses Attention Situation Drained Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.”

Thinking Situation Practice Exercise Concentration Sensitivity Avoiding Mediation Draining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Matter Difficult Situation Buddhism Balance Contact Demonstrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

People World Nature Levels Situation Judging Buddhism Civilization Healthy Green Agreement Unhealthy Green World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.”

Life Inspirational Spiritual Order Grows Challenges Situation Positive Planets Personal Growth Variety Evolve Spiritual Wisdom Destined Spiritual Transformation Spiritual Beings

Author:James Van Praagh

“Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.”

Knows Men Wells Sports Situation Know How He Man Let Me Excited Checks

Author:Payne Stewart

“But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.”

Writing Situation Right Now Print

Author:Peter Sotos

“Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.”

Made Kids Situation

Author:Daley Thompson

“But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.”

Wells States Happens Situation Taxpayers

Author:John Thune

“When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.”

Ifs Knows States Problem Action President United Situation United States Issues Ready Debt Spending Cliffs Irresponsible

Author:John Thune

“I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.”

People Way May Done Hurt Situation Right Thing

Author:Ratan Tata

“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.”

Firsts Persons Made Inspiration Black Situation Childhood Type Hero Expectations Very Good Albums British Britain Hats Realising Urban First Person Good Place Hats Off Urban Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.”

Doe Hands Artist Bits Situation Every Second

Author:Keith Urban

“I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.”

Writing Song Enjoy Situation Busy Bunch Down Time

Author:Kate Voegele

“The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.”

Problem Social Difficult Situation Economic Military Isolated Social Problems

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.”

Humans Earth Situation Taken Unique Satisfied

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.”

Thinking Want Important Fighting Courses Situation My Family

Author:Paz Vega

“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

Writing Sometimes Seems Happens Situation Fronts Pages Melancholy

Author:Mike White

“I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.”

Believe I Believe Situation Economy

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.”

People Ifs Whole Situation Darkness Records Happened Burning Gloaming

Author:Thom Yorke

“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.”

Thinking Writing Self Done Care Song Easy Situation Rocks Ego Musician Consumed Rock Music Hardcore Always Thinking Tripping Rock Musicians

Author:Ryan Adams

“I don't know if I don't believe in monogamy. I think I do believe in it depending on the person or situation or something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Persons Situation Don't Believe Monogamy

Author:Jen Kirkman

“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.”

World Feels Ends Culture Church Situation Christianity Seeds Soil Backyards

Book:Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

Source: Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

Inspirational Effort Situation Subjects Produce Buddhism Clarity Addresses Best Effort Knowledge And Power Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.”

People Inspirational Strong Force Common Attitude Situation Buddhism Development Common Sense Psychics Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.”

Ifs Inspirational Looks Enough Situation Buddhism Painful Painful Situations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.”

Writing Two Stories Situation Solve Features Short Story

Author:Gene Wolfe

“If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.”

Ifs Writing Situation Failing Lucky Creating

Author:Ira Glass

“We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.”

Matter Moving Difficult Situation Cutting Rights Development Including Alternatives Divides Fragments Indigenous Urgency Organisation Indigenous People Peru Difficult Situations Territorial

Author:Evaristo Nugkuag

“The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.”

Today Christian Situation Tragedy Saint Christian Inspirational Desperate

Author:Vance Havner

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

People Real Action Understanding Situation Knowledge Learning Creating Management Objectives Engagement Buzz

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.”

People Thinking Race Situation Entertainment Get Better

Author:Patti LaBelle

“Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Certain Asks Answers Situation Ask Me Respect Me

Author:Patti LaBelle

“Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.”

Wells Done Situation Focus Pieces Awkward Considering Alas Session Awkward Situations

Author:Tony Levin

“I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.”

People Looks Situation Ordinary Extraordinary Caught Unusual Ordinary People Involving

Author:Walter Lord

“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.”

People Knows Has Beens Guy Situation Groups Materials Silent Single Women

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.”

Mind Belief Causes Easy Understanding Situation Study Complicated Critical Aids Things To Do Open Mind Hiv Easy Things

Author:Nate Mendel

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