Old Mottos
Date of removal - motto. Most recent on top (until someone decides differently and re-edits...)
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2005-09-06
"If you ... start thinking like "what is it exactly that surprises me here" (after feeling thrilled by the surprise in the first place) and put some energy into that line of thought, from that very moment you'll start to grow." -- Kikuchi Yasuro, famous Japanese amateur player and teacher of pros (Yamashita Keigo) when asked how to improve at go (at the WAGC)
2005-07-27
A common cause of business failure: seeing that a strategy isn't producing the anticipated results--and responding by going unconscious. A common cause of failure in your personal life: the same policy. -- Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D.
2005-07-09 A blunder, too, is an artistic play--Maeda Nobuaki
2005-5-31
Go is harmony.--Go Seigen
2005-05-23
You must train yourself to let go of the fear of loss
-- Jedi Master Yoda
2005-05-20
Go's bad for your health!
(As is any other addiction... But please don't start posting sad stories!)
2005-05-14
That's a really nice server! Very fine possibilities. Since I found this server, I am divorced!! I really enjoy it.
-- mbj's kgs user info
2005-05-08
Experts play badly, others even worse.
-- Bobby Hamman, Bridge No. 1 player in the world for a long time.
2005-04-10
"KEY PRINCIPLE #1 -- GO IS LIKE A BIG GAME OF CHICKEN"
-- Janice Kim, 3p (caps are hers)
2005-03-15
"It's not enough to be a good player. You also need to play well."
-- Bobby Fisher.
2005-02-22
"Moves you like look big."
-- Handa Dogen, top class Japanese pro in the 1960's.
2005-1-30
Thad:
Those above 4 dan win games by making more good moves.
Those 4 dan and below win games by making fewer bad moves.
Some news are found at Go News.
(Next motto: "Talking about a dream like the dream is over, talk like that won't get u nowhere!" - "All I Need"/ Matchbox twenty - Reuven)
2005-01-25
mrkibbles: im kinda glad im not dan
mrkibbles: everybody would watch your games
lazy: but u'd be playing games which are worth watching!
2005-01-11
"You're only scared to die when you ain't living right"
Reflection Eternal <> Good Mourning
2005-01-07
"I knew I was getting stronger. Once I used to make my moves and then think about them, but now I think before I move." from scene 2
2004-10-25
"It's not that I can't find any good place to play... And not as much that I see too many - It's more of a matter that if you ask a truly strong player all are wrong"
-- hopeless beginner
2004-10-03
"Becoming one stone stronger is the supreme enjoyment"
-- Go Seigen: A Way of Play for the 21st Century
2004-09-25
"Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing." - Frederick the Great
2004-08-06 "The more I practice, the luckier I get." - Legendary professional golfer Gary Player, but we all know he was really talking about Go, even if he didn't know it.
2004-07-13
Rather than remembering joseki, Go is thinking about what the best move is in a position.--Yasunaga Hajime, Japanese pro-strength amateur, ghost writer for Kitani and Go Seigen of "Shin Fuseki Ho", and purported originator of the Chinese style opening.
2004-05-17
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of territory through connection and influence -- this is what Go is all about.
(Quote from: Go Winds, Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 1999)
2004-05-05
Student: Master, what is the greatest game invented by Man? Master: Chess! Student: What about Go? Master: Go existed before Man did.
(Wording by ChadMiller at c2.com)
2004-04-25
"More than a contest, go is an art. Therefore I always think about new moves and new ideas. That's natural if you want to genuinely plumb the mysteries of go." -- Kikuchi Yasuro, famous Japanese amateur player, frequent winner of amateur championships in Japan, founder of a go school, and teacher of various top pros such as Yamashita Keigo.
2004-03-05
Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler
- Einstein
2004-02-20
Who needs girls when you have GO?
Stefan: Why settle for one if you can have both?
Tamsin: Who needs men when you can have go? Go's a good deal more useful! :-)
ChrisSchack: You have maybe something of an unusual perspective on the matter, but I can't bring myself to disagree...
Happy New Year Everyone!
2004-02-11
Nothing is so bad that it can't be good for something.
2004-02-08
Only the body is shed; the mind is forever in the maze of 19 lines-Touya Kouyo, Hikaru no Go Game 149
2004-01-15
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.
(The years as they come bring many agreeable things with them; As they go, they take many away.)
-- Horace: Ars Poetica
2003-12-20
"SL is a large sandbox, in fact, it is so large some people mistake it for a beach."
- Arno
2003-12-13
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- - F. P. Jones
2003-09-03
"How many songs it takes for you to see/You can bomb the world to pieces/You can't bomb it into peace"
- -- Michael Franti
2003-August-01
"Philosophy has objectives and no rules, mathematics has rules and no objectives."
- -- Seen in English Room on KGS
2003-July-15
"Shakespeare was just some lucky monkey."
- -- Dieter at Luck in Go
2003-July-07
If your wife gives you a hard time at home - tenuki.
2003-June-26
"A knight in Go is like a hotdog in a french restaurant."
2003-June-18
"Why?"
- -- a beginner after losing
2003-June-07
"Go is all that matters. Well, there are other things in life, but they are gote and worth less than 10 points."
- -- anonym
2003-June-06
"Don't bite the goban, bite the seed."
- -- Frs
2003-May-23
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
- --Sir Winston Churchill
2003-May-12
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
- - Nietzsche
2003-04-12
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
2003-03-28
"'To be is to do.' - Sartre. 'To do is to be.' - Rousseau. 'Shoo-be-doo-be-doo.' - Sinatra."
2003-02-28
"It's easier to destroy than to create." -- Desperado (Movie)
2002-11-03
"Better to fail and learn, than to succeed too easily and fail to learn."--Anon.
2002-10-23
If you study something, you have to use it in a game, otherwise you haven't really digested it and made it your own. -- Michael Redmond
Fate Amenable to Change
2002-09-12
Nobody here is soft... Me neither!
- Waya (from Hikaru no Go, chapter 83)
2002-06-26:
- "Play out tactics where you can't see how your opponent can stop you, for if he does it means he really is the better player ..." -- the unknown librarian
(So that he can win easily or you become a hamete player?)
2002-05-05:
An amateur can be as strong as a professional even at the top level --Jie Li
2002-02-08:
May the best of 2001 be the worst of 2002 (Scottish proverb)
Today is an average day: Worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow. (Russian saying)
;-) --BillSpight
...need to counter with a more optimistic Russian proverb: "It is better to be rich but healthy, than to be poor but sick." Lots of the former to all in 2002. --Stefan
HolIgor: I've corrected the proverb to correspond to the original.
2001-12-26:
Get connected
2001-10-30:
"Hane, I shrank the groups." -- Bill Taylor
2001-10-15:
- All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
2001-10-12:
Don't sit on the grass. Smoke it :-))
2001-09-07:
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
-- Igor Stravinsky
2001-09-03:
Forget worries, hand talk.
2001-07-28:
Seichuudou (Movement within stillness) -- Iwamoto Kaoru 9 dan
2001-07-15:
L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace. (Audacity, audacity, always audacity.) -- Napoleon Bonaparte
BillSpight: Wasn't that Danton?
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!
2001-07-12:
It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
(Paul Bryant - read on the website of Runner's World)
2001-04-30:
There exists not a shred of evidence that life is serious.
2001-03-20:
Motto for tommorow:
Never do that.
Motto for today:
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off, you are Lost. -- William Blake
2001-01-21:
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself; I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
2001-01-10:
It's better to make a different error each time than repeating the same error over and over.
this is in contrary to my motto:
If it doesn't work, try something different. Maybe it doesn't work either. (c)BIG M
2000-11-15:
Go is all fun and games until someone loses an eye.