Lajos Portisch famous quotes
06-06-2025
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Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
-- Lajos Portisch -
To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.
-- Lajos Portisch
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The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
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Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.
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The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.
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Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.
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