J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

It can’t be any other than madness to commence hostilities before we have established resources on a sure plan for certain and effectual military supplies. Men in that case will not be wanting.

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

To think about attacking is also to think about positioning.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

I will not move my army without onions.