Dane Cook Quotes

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Leadership is solving problems.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

The military can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

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.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

Chess demands total concentration

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

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.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life