Territory Quotes

• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, People, Soul

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Reading, Writing, Blow

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• I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

  Herbie Hancock

  Cutting, Moments, Instinct

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory - there's too much that's gonna go wrong. There's too much human behavior that's going to get in the way. So you're gonna have to start thinking about it in a different direction, and the different direction is: what is wrong with society?

  Oren Moverman

  Thinking, Soldier, Different

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

  Paul Virilio

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think for some people real success would mean having all the money in the world and having everyone love you every minute of the day. I don’t know if that’s really my aspiration. I just want to keep doing this. I just want to keep finding new ways and new paths and new territory. Every time I get to do it, it feels like freedom.

  Stacey D'Erasmo

  Real, Love You, Mean

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• To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, World

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• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Time, Stories

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

  Arthur Kemp

  People, Determine, Regions

  Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

  Dorothea Lange

  Ignorant, Mind, Requirements

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• What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

  Robert Frost

  Travel, Home, Pieces

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  World, Maps, Frame Of Reference

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, World, This World

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Rights, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Doe, Bother, Walking

  "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth" by Anton Szandor LaVey, www.buzzfeed.com. 1967.

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  All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

  Sally Ride

  Travel, Adventure, History

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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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, Maps, Structure

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

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• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  Vince McMahon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

  Martin Gardner

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Titles, Deeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

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