It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Every day of life is a gift! Be sure to... unwrap it. Play with it. And, most importantly, give thanks for it!

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.