I Play Chess Not Checkers Quotes & Sayings

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. — B.F. Skinner

... we never know, and never would know, what it would be like to understand another person fully. It seems a simple thought, but as I get older I see more and more that she had to tell us that. — Elizabeth Strout

Why not just recreate Einstein - one of the smartest humans of all-time, she thought. His advice will be priceless! — Brad McKinniss

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now? — Juliana Hatfield

Abandoned mill that — Craig Johnson

I am so busy doing nothing ... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. — Jerry Seinfeld

The business of America is business. — Calvin Coolidge

I'm not in the Scouts any more,' I remind her. Mr Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took the Snowdonia mountain rescue service two days to find my shelter. — David Mitchell

Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan. — Jennifer Donnelly

I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That's sort of like living in a small town. It's a simpler game, but it's played to a higher level. — Peter Hessler

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked. — Joyce Carol Oates

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they say that you have "lost your marbles," not recognizing that, while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette with his brain. — Tom Robbins

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers. — Mark Miller

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

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one's own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another's. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. — Lilith Saintcrow

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me. — P.C. Cast

Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing. — Patrick Rothfuss

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. — Boyd K. Packer