Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Athena always, always has a plan.

Life is a kind of chess.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.