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Old Mottos
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Date of removal - motto. Most recent on top (until someone decides differently and re-edits...)


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 Ammenable 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.



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