Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
Terrorists cannot win unless they affect the way we think and act.
I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.
Modern war has become a struggle for men's minds as well as for their bodies
There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess
We should not conduct a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends.
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
In boxing, there are lot of things that happen where they try to slow down the process and try to get to the other team, trying to get into our heads.
But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
My way is to talk to my opponent so he makes it a personal thing. He starts playing me one-on-one, and forgets about his team. Meanwhile, I'm still playing team ball and eating him up. Some guys tried talking back, but you can't get a talker when a talker's talking to you.
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.
Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.
This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
In a war, the hearts and minds of the people on the home front are just as important as the hearts and minds of those in the war zone.
