John Dickerson Quotes

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

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.

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.