Today's Contemplation.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be road blocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

   --  Michael Jordan

Today's Contemplation.

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

   --  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Today's Contemplation.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

   --  Dr. Daisaku Ikeda

Today's Contemplation.

Master your past in the present, or your past will master your future.   -- Unknown

Sometimes I think that the state of our chess is in the decline it is in because we have been hammered so many times in the past and for so many many years by sending out our players untrained, unprepared and not properly supported that we have lost our self belief and confidence. So today we just go through the motions like zombies and send our players out in the same way. And so the past becomes the present. And the present creates our future.

So perhaps we do need to confront that past however unpalatable it may be so that we can do things differently in the present and have a different future.

Today's Contemplation.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

   --  John Lubbock (1834-1913)

Note: I think you will find that this applies on the board too.

Today's contemplation.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, by choice, courage, and determination.

   --  Matt Labrum

Note: To play strong chess, I think you need both talent and character. And character is the byproduct of correct and tough training. What do you think?

Today's Contemplation.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

   --  Brian Tracy

Ref: Here.

Today's Contemplation.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

   --  Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Today's Contemplation.

Where there is order, there is responsibility. Are you a resource that may be drawn upon in times of others' needs and your own as well? There is a strength beyond our strength, giving strength to our strength.
   --  Howard Thurman

Please note the first line.

Today's contemplation.

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

   --  Albert Einstein

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think selfishly, your conduct will suit your thinking.    --  Annie Besant

Today's Contemplation.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
       
   --  Joan Didion

Today's Contemplation.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

   --  Og Mandino (1923-1996)

Today's Contemplation.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely sticking to it. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life. The procedure, the process is its own reward.

   --  Amelia Earhart

Today's Contemplation

The victory of success is half won when one gains the
habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most
tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through
each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial
or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
                                      
   --  Og Mandino

Today's Contemplation

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give
we receive - when a business does something good for
somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

   --  Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Today's Contemplation.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
       
   --  Winston S. Churchill

Today's Contemplation

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done".
        
   --  Author Unknown

Today's Contemplation.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of
being subject to half the evils we anticipate than
to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of
what might happen.

   --  Herodotus

Today's Contemplation

Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory
as the wish to forget it.

   --  Cat Patrick

Today's Contemplation.

The most significant discovery of the human potential movement is that you can change your beliefs through your actions as easily as you can change your actions through your beliefs.

   --  Dr Robert Anthony