The only city people are those born so.
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.
I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts. . . it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.
When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.