Chess Not Checkers Quotes

#1. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#2. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Mark Miller

#3. Cash or check, cash or check. Cash is better than check. Check, check, check, have a bowl of checkers, but keep a plate for chess.

Mary E. Warner

#4. Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Johnny Moss

#6. Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.

Rick Yancey

#7. A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Coco Chanel

#8. The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Bob Costas

#9. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#10. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

Barry Lyga

#11. I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

Billy Joe Shaver

#12. I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose

Josh Stern

#13. I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Dennis Miller

#14. You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.

Mark Miller

#15. He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Karin Slaughter

#16. Checkers is for tramps

Paul Morphy

#17. Sometimes hard stuff needs to be done in order to make the stuff you love possible

Leo Babauta

#18. These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Kobe Bryant

#19. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.

Billy Graham

#20. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

Garry Kasparov

#21. I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

Matthew Vaughn

#22. It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

Jon Stewart

#23. Drink your coffee
people in Africa are sleeping.

Josh Lanyon

#24. Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

Landon Donovan

#25. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

Wahida Clark

#26. The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

Ricky Gervais