Alexander Pushkin Quotes

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.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

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

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

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

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

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.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

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

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

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.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.