“A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.” ShouldDoeGamesUnderstandingPlayerMilitaryTheoryCardsBusinessmanGreedyThoroughStrategistThorough Understanding Author:Anatol Rapoport
“Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.” WritingMeanPlayUsePlayerStageTheoryGuitarPianoGuitar PlayerMusic TheoryInstrumentalists Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.” PlayerTheoryBuiltInstrumentsGuitarGuitar Player Author:Hunter Hayes
“I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.” BrainPlayerTheoryMessagesBenches Author:Bobby Knight
“The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.” IfsDifferentHelpingUseProblemSeemsStudyPlayerTheoryEasierMathematicsChessBeing TrueBranchesResolveLinksChess Players Author:Viswanathan Anand
“He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.” WellsUseCareAbleSchoolFatherDealsPiecesPlayerModernTheoryOughtKingsUnderstoodAdvantageWeakTake CareChessSquares Author:Bobby Fischer
“The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.” ThinkingShouldLongRealScienceSocialResultsPathPlayerPlanetsTheoryNewsLogicSkinsScientistHorseDistanceAttractionConclusionMeatLogicalRacingSquaresRobesTheoremsLogical ThinkingHunchesPhysical ScienceRemorselessGuesswork Author:Anthony Standen