Maps Quotes - Page 9

• Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Attitude, Keys

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• Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Israel, Disappear, States

  "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

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• Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Self, Treasure, Proud

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• I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

  Jane Yolen

  Stars, Book, Believe

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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

  William J. Clinton

  Doubt, Important, Firsts

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• When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

  Michael Stipe

  Ukulele, Band, Athens

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• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  William Labov

  Country, America, Europe

  "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

  Harold Morowitz

  Learning, Character, Technique

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• I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

  Melissa Bank

  Real, Goal, Kind

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• Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Teaching, People, Excellence

  "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Iran

  "The Iranian Revolution". "Rear Vision" with Annabelle Quince, www.abc.net.au. February 11, 2009.

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• There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Trying, Want, Territory

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• So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

  Michael Stipe

  Beauty, San Francisco, East

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Organization, Long

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean, America, United States

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Squares

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

  Edward Witten

  Time, Three, Dimensions

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• If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

  Jon Krakauer

  Want, Blank, Spots

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Lying, Nice, Russia

  "Vom Fürsten Bismarck und seinem Haus. Tagebuchblätter". Book by Eugen Wolf, 1904.

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• The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn't eat.

  Anne Sexton

  Summer, Thinking, Doors

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• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  Margaret Millar

  Nice, Fall, Simple

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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