Quotes from David Bronstein

Chess is imagination.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.