This Chess Not Checkers Quotes & Sayings

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out. — Karrie Webb

I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose — Josh Stern

Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty
never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG). — Max Lucado

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers. — Bob Costas

I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected
at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to. — Muriel Beadle

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom. — Margot Kidder

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers. — Johnny Moss

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy. — Wahida Clark

He taught me to stand on a street corner or in a room for an hour - or two or three - waiting for that great epiphany of a moment, the wondrous combination of subject, light, and composition. And something else: the inexplicable magic that made the image dive right into your heart. — Lynsey Addario

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers. — Karin Slaughter

Checkers is for tramps — Paul Morphy

It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? — Neil Gaiman

Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook. — Garry Kasparov

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess. — Dennis Miller

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist. — Bill Budge

The Englishmen were clean and enthusiastic and decent and strong. They sang boomingly well. They had been singing together every night for years. The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Their bellies were like washboards. The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs. They were all masters of checkers and chess and bridge and cribbage and dominoes and anagrams and charades and Ping-Pong and billiards, as well. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. — Mark Twain

In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening. — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs. — Jon Stewart

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant

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

Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids. — Rick Yancey

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

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along. — Barry Lyga

I think the
people who go through more can
end up stronger in the long run.
They have insight in to what a lot of
people don't have and a better
understanding - they can be more
open-minded. - Ella's mother — Jessica Sorensen

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

Only Americans can hurt America. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul ... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. — Neil Armstrong

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course. — Ban Ki-moon

Cash or check, cash or check. Cash is better than check. Check, check, check, have a bowl of checkers, but keep a plate for chess. — Mary E. Warner

Where's your dad now?" Thomas asked.
"He's gone."
The word gone echoed all over the reservation. The reservation was gone itself, just a shell of its former self, just a fragment of the whole. But the reservation still possessed the power and rage, magic and loss, joys and jealousy. The reservation tugged at the lives of its Indians, stole from them in the middle of the night, watched impassively as the horses and salmon disappeared. But the reservation forgave, too. Sam Bone vanished between foot falls on the way to the Trading Post one summer day and reappeared years later to finish his walk. Thomas, Chess, and Checkers heard the word gone shake the foundation of the house. — Sherman Alexie

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board. — 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