Checkerboard Quotes:

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

topic: Men, Checkerboard, Bokonon

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

- Chubby Checker

topic: Thinking, People, Looks, Checkerboard

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

topic: Moving, Men, Player, Checkerboard

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

- Louise Hay

topic: Law Of Attraction, People, Together, Checkerboard

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

- Louise Hay

topic: Offers, Checkerboard

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

topic: Moving, Life Is Like, Pieces, Checkerboard

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

- Philip Kapleau

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

topic: Reflection, Men, Mind, Checkerboard

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

topic: Gun, Popcorn, Bags, Checkerboard, Tricycles

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

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Fall, Black And White, Thinking, Dialectics, Checkerboard

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

- Walt Disney

topic: Appreciation, Communication, Mean, Live For Yourself, Explicit

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Strong, Believe, Men, Thought Of The Day, Inspired To Work

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

topic: Color, Simplicity, Trying, Checkerboard

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

source: Source: www.nicklewis.org

topic: Thinking, Squares, Political, Nihilist, Checkerboard

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

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Struggle, Moving, Fighting, Checkerboard, Political Struggle

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

- Albert Camus

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

topic: Sea, House, Unrest, Checkerboard