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“Some people need a poke in the eye to show them the right direction, others simply need pointing in the right direction. It is a question of having the wisdom to know when to point and when to poke.”
― Geoff Thompson, The Art of Fighting without Fighting: Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion by Geoff Thompson (25-Sep-1998) Paperback

“I'd sat on the sidelines for too long, hid from the responsibility, if such existed, to my fellow man. I could do as I'd done for decades, keep my head down, live my life. And everyone else be damned. But I felt the old stirring, the old call. The need to do better, to be better. To help. In the end, it wasn't even a difficult decision.”
― J.T. Nicholas, Re-Coil

“It is better to suffer the consequences of an oversight than suffer from foolish and panicky disorder in analysis.”
― Alexander Kotov, Think Like a Grandmaster

“Practice has shown that only a few players have mastered the technique of analysis; even highly rated players are lacking in this respect.”
― Alexander Kotov, Think Like a Grandmaster