Terrain Quotes - Page 3

• If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Russia, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My preference is that we beat him [Donald Trump] outright in the primary process. And I believe that's exactly what's going to happen here in the next few weeks, especially as we move to winner-take-all states. The terrain begins to change.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Moving, Next

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here and different angles to him," and you're not sure what his motives are, you've got a good shot at working towards something interesting.

  Hoon Lee

  Character, Interesting, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Thank you, restlessness, as challenging a traveling companion as there could be. In the end, my embrace of you was what sent me on the only search that really counts. Responding to you was the stirring that led me to sit every morning and to venture into that invisible terrain where seeker and sought merge and rest together, once and for all eternity.

  Rod Stryker

  Morning, Challenges, Together

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• I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

  Jeff Ament

  Growing Up, Mean, Healthy

  "Ament lets it roll with Tres Mts". Interview with Jim Wilkie, www.espn.com. March 17, 2011.

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• We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Loser, Winner

  "Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America". "The Wall Street Journal", September 9, 2012.

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• Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.

  Atul Gawande

  Baseball, Team, Teaching

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• Everyone's the same.  All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

  Eyedea

  Reality, Brain, Jackpot

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• I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Mirrors, Mind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Military, War, Opportunity

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Land

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley.

  Travis Rice

  Valleys, Levels, Whole

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach us that no one else has a valid map and that our own church's piece shows us all the terrain and roads that exist. In fact, there is much more terrain, more roads, and more truth for us to see if we can accept and read one another's maps, fitting them together to give us a clearer picture of the larger Christian tradition.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.

  Philippe Starck

  Territory, Able, Kind

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• Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.

  Roland Barthes

  Hero, Essence, Climate

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• For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

  Thomas Piketty

  Long, Use, Scientific Method

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• The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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• The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole.

  Tom Weiskopf

  Golf, Unique, Play

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• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

  David Abram

  Expression, Australia, Vitality

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage

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• Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Self

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books

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• Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.

  Rose Tremain

  Moving, Writing, Journey

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• But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

  Theodor Herzl

  Roots, Giving, Wish

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.

  Frank Bruni

  Gay, Justice, Choices

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