Monthly Quotes #2018.8

この元帥府に登用されることは、有能なる人材たる評価をうけることだ、と言われるようにならなくてはならない。現にそうなりつつあるが、現状をさらにすすめたいラインハルトだった。

田中芳樹「銀河英雄伝説」

Monthly Quotes #2018.6

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to reinvent a company’s culture. If you have made the mistake of doing business one way for five years, you can’t suddenly impose a layer of different values upon it. By then, the water’s already in the well, and you have to drink it.

Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart into It

Monthly Quotes #2018.5

As the time goes by, experience and knowledge are focused through the prism of talent, which can itself be sharpened, focused, and polished. This mix is the source of intuition, an absolutely unique tool that each of us possesses and that we can continuously hone into an ever finer instrument. Here we begin to see the influence of individual psychology and our emotional makeup as it is expressed in our decisions – what we call style in a chess player.

Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess

Weekly Quotes #55

将棋が急に弱くなることはありませんが、少しずつ力が後退していくことはあって、その後退要因としていちばん大きいのが「リスクをとらない」ことなんです。リスクテイクをためらったり、怖がったりしていると、ちょっとずつですが、確実に弱くなってしまうんですね。

羽生善治

Weekly Quotes #52

As in this case, so in all others, aim always at the highest; get always into the highest company, and address yourself particularly to the highest in it. The search after the unattainable philosopher’s stone has occansioned a thousand useful discoveries, which otherwise would never have been made.

Lord Chesterfield’s Letters