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

そのような卑しい碁を打っていると、その卑しさが身についてしまいます。

張栩「勝利は10%から積み上げる」

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

これでよしと思ったときに、実は後退が始まっている。

米長邦雄

子曰、不患人之不己知、患己不知人也。
子曰く、人の己を知らざるを患えず、人を知らざるを患うる也。

論語 学而第一

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

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”

Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland