Maps Quotes
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For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
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Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
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There are those who follow maps, and those who make them.
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While geometrical concepts can be enriched by culture-specific devices like maps, or the terms of a natural language, underneath this variability lies a shared set of geometrical concepts. Those concepts allow adults and children with no formal education, and minimal spatial language, to categorize geometrical forms and to use geometrical relationship to represent the surrounding spatial layout.
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
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It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
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An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.
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The tragic fact is that the maps of the world are drawn in blood.
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Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
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Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.
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Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
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Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
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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.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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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.
