Emanuel Lasker

1868–1941 · Greman chess player, World Chess champion

Topics: learning

• You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method is plastic. It is applicable in every situation.

  — Emanuel Lasker

• I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  — Emanuel Lasker