quotes about Thought Of The Day

“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

“If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.”

“I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.”

“The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.”

“To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.”

“Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.”

“When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood”

“The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.”

“They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.”

“If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.”

Source : "Vernon Davis: The NFL Playoffs Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.