Territory Quotes

• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

  Paul Virilio

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Maps, Structure

  "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.

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• Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

  Arthur Kemp

  People, Determine, Regions

  Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

  Dorothea Lange

  Ignorant, Mind, Requirements

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• Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Doe, Size, Grandeur

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.110, Library of Alexandria

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• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  Vince McMahon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, People, Soul

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Blessed, Effort

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• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Land, Attention

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• With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.

  Anna Kendrick

  Character, People, Entering

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  Randy Jackson

  Wise, Tvs, Shows

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• Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

  Susanne Bier

  Creative, Way, Excitement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Titles, Deeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

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• He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

  Graham Greene

  Liars, Lying, Return

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

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

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• None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

  Stephen Covey

  World, Maps, Frame Of Reference

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, World, This World

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Time, Stories

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  All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

  Sally Ride

  Travel, Adventure, History

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

  Robert Frost

  Travel, Home, Pieces

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• Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

  Martin Gardner

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

  Krista Tippett

  God, Religious, Compassion

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