Chess Quote by Christian Morgenstern Download Open image “Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.” — Christian Morgenstern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Imagination Initiative Inspirational
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me. — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take… — Rza Copy Share Image
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road.… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up as Captain Chenoweth continued. “These guys are exactly who we need to get you to your destination. They’ve got contacts throughout the area, and we should be able to slip through without anyone even knowing we’re… — Russell Blake Copy Share
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
