Charles Krauthammer Quotes

I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

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

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

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

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.