Ashot Nadanian quotes

“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.”
-- Ashot Nadanian

Source : S'pore Chess News, September 07, 2010.

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“Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.”
-- Ashot Nadanian

Source : Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

#Thinking Quotes #Secret Love Quotes #Coaching Quotes

“Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.”
-- Ashot Nadanian

Source : Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

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“The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.”
-- Ashot Nadanian

Source : Chessville.com Article, October 31, 2010.

#Beautiful Quotes #Moving Quotes #Boards Quotes

“Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.”
-- Ashot Nadanian

Source : S'pore Chess News, November 15, 2010.

#Loss Quotes #Victory Quotes #Your Loss Quotes

“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”

“There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.”

“Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.”

“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”

“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”

“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”