Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 14

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

You go through experiences in life on and off the pitch.

The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.

I will always be the first to admit when I have done something wrong.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

I have always been a midfielder, and I remain a midfielder.

Better to be wrong than be boring.

For me, winning isn't just about lifting the cup, the trophy - it's about giving your maximum, on and off the pitch.

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'

In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

Life is too short to be negative.

I'd rather play with pressure than without.

I have no bitterness towards Mourinho. I did what I had to do in training. Of course, I didn't understand his choices, but he was the boss. I had to accept those choices.

I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

I would have been happy to play in Holland for a big club, but I can see the point of selling me to an English club. It's very simple: Dutch clubs are not going to spend £16m on a player like me.

You have to make your own destiny.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information.

I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

It's a dream for every football player to play in the Premier League; the atmosphere, the stadiums are always full.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

Online it is much more important to have good quick instincts and the nature of opening preparations changes too, as there is less time to delve deep into the position once the computer preparation ends.

The Netherlands is a country I love and am very proud to be from, and I'm definitely supportive of the music scene we have.

Is wellbeing only economic growth? Only salaries? Or is wellbeing also being able to breathe clean air and drink clean water?

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Matthijs is very mature for his age: he has the physique of a 24-year-old. He is also strong with both feet, has an extremely good range of passing, can head the ball, scores goals, and is a real leader at the back already at the age of 18.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!

I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

You can't afford to lose games. It is always possible that you will not win, but it is the way you play the game.

I've always been a fighter and always competitive.

When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you're at, and you know you have to step up.

Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.

Cristiano Ronaldo is good, but Messi is 10 times better.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

Every league starts with homegrown players.

I respect motorcycles so much.

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

My dad would take me to judo a few times a week. I got all these things that I was able to do once we were set up in Holland. Everything was taken care of. I think Holland is a country that takes care of their people - one of the best countries in the world.

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

I love hanging out with my close friends. Also, going to the movies, Wii parties, and shopping are like gifts to my heart.