Maps Quotes - Page 18

• You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."

  Jeremy Renner

  Play, Waiting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Junk, Pages

  Source: www.ew.com

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• What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, America

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• Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Boards, Gone

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• Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Journey, Passages

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, House, Rooms

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

  T.C. Boyle

  World, Way, Facts

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• Believe the terrain, not the map

  Brian Kernighan

  Believe, Terrain

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• You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Journey, Self, Halt

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• The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Territory, Gloves, Folds

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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• I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Answers

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.15, Vintage

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• Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Desire, Given

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Want, Figures

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• Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Understanding, Tools

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature

  Jade Puget

  Nice, Rivers, Wyoming

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• Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.

  John Merrow

  Book, School, Departure

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• If you look at the portion of the GPU available to compute throughout the frame, it varies dramatically from instant to instant. For example, something like opaque shadow map rendering doesn't even use a pixel shader, it's entirely done by vertex shaders and the rasterization hardware - so graphics aren't using most of the 1.8 teraflops of ALU available in the CUs. Times like that during the game frame are an opportunity to say, 'Okay, all that compute you wanted to do, turn it up to 11 now.'

  Mark Cerny

  Opportunity, Games, Shadow

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• Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

  Daniel Coyle

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

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• We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Brain, Connections

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.15, A&C Black

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• When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

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• Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Couple, Book, Important

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• Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

  Alan Ball

  Long, Trying, Mysterious

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