Magnus Carlsen Quotes

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world