Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
Interpretation
Chess helps you learn to manage your emotions and think clearly under pressure.
This quote by Stanley Kubrick emphasizes the importance of emotional control and objective thinking, skills that are cultivated through the game of chess. Just as players must restrain their initial impulses to appreciate a promising move, they also learn to analyze situations rationally, especially in challenging circumstances, thus gaining valuable life lessons that extend beyond the chessboard.
In practice
During a presentation on strategic thinking, one could reference this quote to highlight the importance of controlling emotions.
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.
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With wealth comes responsibility.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
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