Chris Carter Quotes

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that's one of my strengths, because you have - every detail matters.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

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.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.

Making assumptions taught me a lot as a producer, because it's something I never do now.

You always need to be curious and study.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.