Leo Rosten Quotes

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

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

The next move is always the test.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

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.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

Life is a kind of chess.

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.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

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.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.