Kepa Arrizabalaga Quotes

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

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.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

I believe there are two types of decision-makers - those who lead with their gut and those who make lists of pros and cons, and fully anticipate the consequences.

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.