Viswanathan Anand Quotes

We should not get ourselves committed until we know how everything will come out.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Anyone who takes the first step without planning the last step should not be allowed in the counsels of war.

Do you think it’s wise, darling? You know you’ve got to rule this afternoon.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.