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• The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

  Bob Black

  Inspiration, Mean, March

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

  Hafez

  God, Purpose, Awareness

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• Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two, Important, Territory

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.58, Institute of GS

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• All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Home, Way, Exile

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.712, Macmillan

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• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Flags, May

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• The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Done, Virtue

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• Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Want, Ability

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• For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Use, Voyages

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

  Peter Block

  Educational, Vision, Compass

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• If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Gone, Bigs

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• We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

  Nelson DeMille

  Motivation, Journey, Pilgrim

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• Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

  Peter Russell

  Memories, Eye, Ideas

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• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Powerful, Science, Tools

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Men, Visions Of The Future

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• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

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• What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Names, Looks

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

  Justina Chen

  Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.

  Joe Manganiello

  Kings, Careers, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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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, Territory, Structure

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

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• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.272, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Relief, Faces, Unhappiness

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.306, New Directions Publishing

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• Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

  Stanislav Grof

  Race, Collective Unconscious, Culture

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• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  Eric Bentley

  Biographies, Geography, Chaps

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