Chess Quote by Garry Kasparov

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

— Garry Kasparov

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly,…

— Garry Kasparov

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing --…

— Anonymous

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

— Ethel Mumford

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells