Garry Kasparov Quotes

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• If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Brave, Risk

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• All women are inferior to men.

  Garry Kasparov

  Men, Inferiors

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• It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

  Garry Kasparov

  Plans

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

  Garry Kasparov

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview With Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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• Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

  Garry Kasparov

  Winning, Needs, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

  Garry Kasparov

  Trying, Way, Failing

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• Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

  Garry Kasparov

  Levels, Chess, Loser

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• I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

  Garry Kasparov

  Advantage

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Art, Lying

  Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Choices, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

  Garry Kasparov

  Doe, Chess, Succeed

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• Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

  Garry Kasparov

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

  Garry Kasparov

  Risk, Drink, Champagne

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• We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Waste

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Hard Work, Night, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Looks, Impossible

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• The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Hard Work, Focus

  "Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer". Garry Kasparov's review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman's book "Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind" (2005), www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, People, Want

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Torture

  Independent on Sunday, November 1995.

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• Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Moving Forward, Problem

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Goal, Might, Strategy

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