Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

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

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.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

It's fun to use your brain.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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.

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.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.