Chess Pieces Quotes - Page 2

• Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Opportunity, Player

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2017

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Squares

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• A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Character, Past, Ignorant

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Two, Numbers

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

  Ice T

  Military, Moving, Forever

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

  Rumi

  Moving, Masters, Pieces

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• Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

  Isaac Boleslavsky

  White, Black, Pieces

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• Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Games, Chess Game, Battle

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2325, Delacorte Press

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• If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

  William McDonough

  Moving, Games, Ends

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Color, Perception

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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