Maps Quotes - Page 9

• A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Information, Metaphor

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• The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Beauty, Men, Order

  James Joseph Sylvester (1908). “The Collected Mathematical Papers: (1870-1883)”

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• Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

  Robert Ballard

  Country, Lying, Rights

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• I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

  Melissa Bank

  Real, Goal, Kind

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• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Writing, Suffering

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.

  Stanley Krippner

  Book, Believe, Responsibility

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• It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

  John O'Callaghan

  Life, Giving Up, Positivity

  "The Maine Unveil 'Anthem For a Dying Breed' DVD Documentary Details". PureVolume interview, www.purevolume.com.

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• The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Firsts, Holmes, Novel

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• All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

  Paula Scher

  Facts, Literal

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• I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

  Anne Fadiman

  Believe, Book, Scotch

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Lying, Nice, Russia

  "Vom Fürsten Bismarck und seinem Haus. Tagebuchblätter". Book by Eugen Wolf, 1904.

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• Sometimes the best map will not guide you,
  you can't see what's round the bend.
  Sometimes the road leads through dark places,
  sometimes the darkness is your friend

  Bruce Cockburn

  Dark, Sometimes, Guides

  Song: Pacing the Cage, Album: Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo

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• Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Notebook, Father, Men

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• Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

  Debby Ryan

  Water, Storm, Digging

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• I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

  Debby Ryan

  Everyday, Stories

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• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Markus Wolf

  Powerful, Heart, Europe

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• Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Teaching, People, Excellence

  "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.

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• On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Bryan Appleyard (2004). “Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science”, p.14, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, Culture, Purpose

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

  Jane Yolen

  Stars, Book, Believe

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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A word does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  
  Just as the wind that hides the water
  Like the flowers that mud hides.
  
  A glance does not say anything
  And at the same time it says everything
  Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map
  
  A truth does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  Like a bonfire that does not go out
  Like a stone that is born dust.
  
  If one day you need me, I will be nothing
  And at the same time I will be everything
  
  Because in your eyes are my wings
  And the shore where I drown.

  Carlos Varela

  Life, Rain, Flower

  "Una Palabra [A Word]". Song by Carlos Varela, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you’ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea’s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Ideas, Interesting

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