Maps Quotes - Page 7

We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

I wisely started with a map.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Literally draw a detailed map-like an organization chart-of interlocking ownership and affiliates, many of which were also publicly traded. So, identifying one stock led him to a dozen other potential investments. To tirelessly pull threads is the lesson that I learned from Mike Price.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.