Maps Quotes - Page 17

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Harold Bloom

Vocabulary, Giving, Psychology

"Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy". Book by Paul A. Olson, 2008.

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Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Edward Abbey

Texas, Utah, Space

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Law

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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Stories, Complicated, Ifs

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Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

Sigmund Freud

Moving, Thinking, Psychology

"New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.

George H. W. Bush

War, Order, Tyrants

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Color, Topography, West

Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

John Irving

Writing, Creative, Plot

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With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

Joan Osborne

Song, Brother, Moving

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I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

Paulo Coelho

Fear, Interesting, Steps

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

John Donne

Fear, Sight, Sea

John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

Joe Teti

Light, Survival, Indiana

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It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard

Real, Empires, Here And There

"The Precession of the Simulacra" (1981) See Korzybski 1

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These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world.

Jay Sankey

Magic, World

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The mind map will change your life.

Tony Buzan

Mind, Changing Your Life

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A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

Mary Antin

Practice, Use, Elements

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

George MacDonald

Character, Mind, Cry

George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Lisa See

Book, Looks, Want

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Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

Phil Cousineau

Book, Reading, Practice

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I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Jose Canseco

Baseball, Gratitude, Thinking

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I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
-Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

Robin Blaser

Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

David Brooks

Brain, Mind, Desire

"Beyond the Brain". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 2013.

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In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

Meher Baba

Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Michael Mandelbaum

Real, Past, Historical

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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

Ken Wilber

Lying, Book, Reality

Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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