“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.”
"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack."
- Wilhelm Steinitz
Courage
"Chess is not for timid souls."
- Wilhelm Steinitz
Courage
"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack"
- Wilhelm Steinitz
Courage
"The King is a fighting piece. Use it!"
- Wilhelm Steinitz
Courage
"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
- Wilhelm Steinitz
Inspiration
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity