Checkerboard Quotes

• I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

  Chubby Checker

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.

  Louise Hay

  Law Of Attraction, People, Together

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• Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

  Louise Hay

  Offers

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• Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Life Is Like, Gains

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

  Philip Kapleau

  Reflection, Men, Mind

  Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Bokonon

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.2, Dial Press

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• Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

  Dr. Seuss

  Gun, Popcorn, Bags

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.

  Philip Kapleau

  Reflection, Reality, Men

  Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself against the Pacific, against Asia. Having to think of myself in relationship to that horizon has liberated me from the black-and-white checkerboard.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Fall, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Business, Work

  "Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems?". Book by M. Nadarajan Munisamy, 2005.

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• Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

  William Morris Hunt

  Color, Simplicity, Trying

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• I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Squares, Political

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Struggle, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, House, Unrest

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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