Chess ... Master?

"Chess will always be the master of us all."



- Alexander Alekhine

1892-1946

The Reason

"I quote others only the better to express myself"

Michel de Montaigne,
1537 - 1593

Many who check out my blog or read it regularly have asked me why I like to put up other people's quotes. I have been trying to do this diligently, everyday. Well, here's my answer above.

This blog has started with a few objectives: to pen thoughts, to scold people (ha...ha...), to "suan" (hokkien word - meaning to sneer or mock) the garmen, to journal, to keep pictures and videos, to let others know what songs I like, to update my clients with some financial market write-up, etc. But among others, it has a precise purpose: to meet a need - a need for providing daily inputs for those who want to make things happen in their lives.

So if you think I use this blog to make money or friends, sorry, this is not the blog for you. I have a lovely family and a healthy image of self. I have made enough friends over the last three-and-a-half decades, but I forgot to make enough time for all of them. No, I don't need more friends, cos I really can't keep up with all of them. I just need to be a better friend to them. And to some, be their best friend, if I can.

I am glad if these collections of quotes inspire & motivate you. You can read them over and over again, if you like. Good for you. But I do not claim credit for all these. God is my witness. It is He who made all these possible.

"Everything comes from You, and we have given You only what comes from Your hand. O Lord, our God, as for all this abundance ... it comes from You and all of it belongs to You."

I Chronicles 29:14-16

Be an eagle with me, but please, soar like one.

Mistress vs Master

"Chess is a good mistress but a bad master."

"In chess there is a world of intellectual values."

- Gerald Abrahams
1907-1980

Chessmen and Ideas

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Greater Danger

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Michelangelo Buonarroti
1474-1564,
Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

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Decide to Believe, Now!

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

- Dr. Wayne Dyer