Maps Quotes

• 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.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • True
  • Reality

• The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Passion
  • London
  • Streets

• The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

  

  Saadi
  • World
  • Fate
  • Maps

• The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Numbers
  • Paint

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Children
  • Education
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Creating
  • Draws

• Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.

  

  Noam Bardin
  • Change
  • Basis
  • Maps

• There are those who follow maps, and those who make them.

  

  Alberto Villoldo
  • Make
  • Follow
  • Maps

• The tragic fact is that the maps of the world are drawn in blood.

  

  George Jonas
  • Blood
  • Drawn
  • Maps

• An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Reading
  • Other
  • Explorer

• Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

  

  Karl E. Weick
  • World
  • Belief
  • Causes

• Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

  

  Gail Pool
  • Instruments
  • Journeys
  • Fully

• I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Plans
  • Maps

• 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.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Littles
  • Plans
  • Familiar

• Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

  

  Chris Brogan
  • inspirational
  • Intention
  • Maps

• 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
  • Territory
  • Maps

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Use
  • Computer

• Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Principles
  • Territory

• 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
  • Behinds
  • Maps

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