Claude C. Hopkins Quotes

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

The true leader - the genuine world-builder - lives to the point. Acutely concentrated on the few high priorities that will deliver the life of their greatest aspirations. At the end.

I always enjoy playing against great players. You can learn from the best.

You don't win games by being aggressive. You win by being relaxed.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war