Viswanathan Anand Quotes

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

When you're in the presidency, and when you've got a major decision to make, you just put everything out of your mind and focus on that decision like a laser beam and when the decision is finally made you just put everything else out of your mind because there's another one right behind it and then you've got to focus in on that.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Every game gives you a new challenge, and new problems to solve.

I'm always quite rational.

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

I'm never afraid during a game, and I have no negative thoughts. I think about what I have to do. Which players can be substituted? And where I can manage to squeeze in a slight advantage? I remain very calm, which is why I never engage in any sideline antics.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.