“There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.” PeopleHumansBookSocialBrainSucceedSkillsSmartConceptsChessHuman SocietyCalculusKidneysSocial Skills Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them” MenWorldFoundIndividualEffortPlayerGreatnessSkillsChessTrialsPermanentGreat MenDisplayConstructsConfinedTrophiesMomentaryChess PlayersIndividual Effort Author:William Hazlitt
“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.” MadeHandsLife IsGamesKnowingVictorySkillsChessCards Book:The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Source: The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow