Play Chess Not Checkers Quotes

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

Mark Miller

#2. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

Agatha Christie

#3. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Sharon Bolton

#4. But when I was alone I couldn't breathe. Everything feels like drowning except you. You're my oxygen.

Leah Raeder

#5. In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. 92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death.

Hilary Mantel

#7. I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

Jasper Fforde

#8. It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

Greg Graffin

#9. 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#10. The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

George E.P. Box

#11. 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

#12. By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

Orson Scott Card

#13. Red isn't your color, Bozo." Tina had said the first time Eleanor suited up. The other girls all laughed, even the black girls who hated Tina. Laughing at Eleanor was Dr. King's mountain.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Matt Groening

#16. You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

Tim Tebow