According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.