Combination Quotes - Page 13

• It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements.

  Richard Reti

  Art, Mistake, Player

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• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Exercise, Imagination, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  Mark Taimanov

  Play, Elements, Opponents

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• Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Discovery, Serendipity, Today

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• Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Foundation, Essentials

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.53

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• I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Running, Caring, Thinking

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• ... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

  Raymond Keene

  Farewell, Chess, Opinion

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• Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

  Richard Reti

  Moving, Chess, Lovers

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• A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Matter, Form, Force

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.126, editionNEXT.com

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• Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form, Results

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, War, Technology

  Martin Van Creveld (2010). “Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Moon, Magic, Suffering

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press

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• I didn’t fail ten thousand times.
  I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
  materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Failing, Thousand, Materials

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done...Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.

  Samuel Adams

  Wise, Men, Rights

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• I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Feelings, Elements

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

  Stephen Mangan

  Teacher, School, Scary

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• Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Morality, Beats, Profit

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• The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Together, Might

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• Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Plot, Fiction

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.87

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• Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Opportunity, Mutation, Information

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• Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Animal, Hatred, Humanity

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.66, Routledge

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• Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Deeds, Made, Produce

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• The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Party, Men, Swings

  "The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.

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• Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

  Lisa Randall

  Two, Progress, Together

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. February 9, 2006.

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