Henri Poincare Quotes

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

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.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

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

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

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

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

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

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

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.

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

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

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

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

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

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

I'm not sure people would think of me in this light, but frankly, what I enjoyed most about Bain & Company, the consulting firm, was the analytical process of solving tough problems.