John Thorn Quotes

Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

As one looks back over history it is interesting to speculate on what would have happened if individuals or nations had acted differently in certain crises. I often wonder if these speculations will serve to give any of us more courage in facing new situations!

I try to read the game as well as I can.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

History is a better guide than good intentions.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

As the means, so the end.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?