Ronald Gross quotes

“The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.”
-- Ronald Gross

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“I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses”
-- Ronald Gross

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“Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.”
-- Ronald Gross

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“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.”

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal”

“This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.”

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”

“Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.”

“Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.”

“The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company