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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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• Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Understanding, Tools

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Journey, Self, Halt

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• My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

  Jason Aldean

  Notebook, Dad, Teaching

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.

  John Merrow

  Book, School, Departure

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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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• I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, House, Rooms

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

  Ken Wilber

  Laughter, Needs, Prison

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• As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new mental map of where you are, not where you wish you were. To survive you must find yourself, then it won't matter where you are.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Running, Finding Yourself, Wish

  "Deep Survival". Book by Laurence Gonzales, 2003.

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• Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

  Daniel Coyle

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

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• We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Brain, Connections

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.15, A&C Black

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• One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

  Ice Prince

  Dream, African Music, Afros

  Source: www.mobo.com

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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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• My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.

  Jay Crownover

  Home, Littles, Complicated

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