Alfred Korzybski Quotes
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
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
D'Angelo -
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach -
I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot -
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
Rachel Dratch
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. Byatt -
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
Camilla Lackberg -
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs -
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson -
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
Mandy Patinkin -
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
Octavia Spencer
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
Valentina Matviyenko -
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith -
I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
Victoria Pendleton -
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
Gary Hamel -
Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.
Naftali Bennett
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough -
Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
Randeep Hooda -
A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
Jayne Mansfield -
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