Maps Quotes - Page 24

• I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.

  Kevin Durand

  Growing Up, Fun, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
  Nature makes no jumps.
  [Natura non facit saltus]
  All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Relationship, Country, World

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• Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.

  Tinsel Korey

  Crazy, Reading, Moon

  Source: collider.com

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• If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Order, Europe

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, 15/1990, April 9, 1990.

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• The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

  John Berridge

  Bible, Christian, Father

  JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38

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• I have lived
  in my body
  for years
  and still need
  maps and lights
  to find my way
  to how I feel.

  K.Michelle

  Light, Years, Needs

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• Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivation, Real, Passion

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• We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Silly, Lines, Grind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

  Reif Larsen

  Long, Married, Truth And Beauty

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

  Norman Doidge

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Long

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.

  Merrill Markoe

  Anxiety, Creative, Growth

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• [In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Space, Discovery, Age

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “The Lying Stones of Marrakech”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

  Norman Doidge

  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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• I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Skins, Movement, Navigation

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.

  Terry Pratchett

  Said, Behinds, Standing

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Wall, Style, Wonderland

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Our World, Land, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.12, Anchor

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• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Noble Man, Law

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• There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

  Anthony Marra

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Pieces, Paper

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Goal, Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Confidence, Travel, Way

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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