Kim Swift Quotes

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

I like to make people think a little bit.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

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.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

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.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

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

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.