Grenville Kleiser Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

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.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.