Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.

Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.

In business, my head needs to rule over my heart.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.