Steve Carell Quotes

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

If politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works. It's take a little from here, take a little from there.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it to be grounded with moments - it's not like, 'Everyone be as funny as you can, quickly, at all times!' It's not like that. You have to pick the right improvisers.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.