Patrick Wolff quotes

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.
-- Patrick Wolff

#Thinking #Missing #Achievement

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.
-- Patrick Wolff

#Long #Investing #Want

Chess is for everybody.
-- Patrick Wolff

#Chess

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Think it over, think it under.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.