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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. -- Muhammad Ali
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. -- Les Brown
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. -- Christopher Columbus
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that. -- Joe Trohman
I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own. -- Brit Morin
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
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. -- Alfred Korzybski
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps. -- Barry Ritholtz
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. -- Ben Parr
Maps codify the miracle of existence. -- Nicholas Crane
Maps are a way of organizing wonder. -- Peter Steinhart
Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user. -- Eric Schmidt
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. -- Mark Jenkins
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. -- Mark Jenkins
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. -- David Christian
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. -- Lesley Howarth
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
Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt. -- Lubos Motl
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't. -- Russell Hoban
More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution. -- Rebecca Moore
The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski
There's just something hypnotic about maps. -- Ken Jennings
If geography is prose, maps are iconography, -- Lennart Meri
If geography is prose, maps are iconography. -- Lennart Meri
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. -- Eric Bentley
It is not down in any map; true places never are. -- Herman Melville
Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps. -- Ken Jennings
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. -- Watts Humphrey
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. -- Bob Black
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. -- Steven Wright
We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps. -- Nelson DeMille
We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps. -- Nelson DeMille
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. -- E. C. Bentley
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. -- Earl Nightingale
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. -- Mary Schmich
In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. -- Jon Bon Jovi
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. -- Bill Dedman
I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one. -- Peter Greenaway
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year. -- Mark McGwire
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard. -- Bill Bryson
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. -- Lisa See
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
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. -- Saint Augustine
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. -- Anne Grant
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited. -- Andrew Bird
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map. -- Arthur Guiterman
I got introduced to Maps by my label, and I liked his sound. I had been living with the original version of 'Younger' for quite a long time when I heard the result of his remix, and I loved it. It actually made me find a new love for the track. -- Seinabo Sey
While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising. -- Douglas Rushkoff
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. -- Charles Frazier
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. -- Jude Deveraux
I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal. -- Eric Schmidt
I have always loved maps. -- Ken Jennings
Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it. -- Mason Cooley
We were just looking at maps... -- Rick Riordan
Why are old maps always burnt? -- Chelsea Peretti
Principles are the territory. Values are maps. -- Stephen Covey
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True places are not found on maps. -- Herman Melville
I carried recipes in my head like maps. -- Joanne Harris
All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. -- Paula Scher
So, if I looked him up on google maps- -- Rick Riordan
All I ever wanted was a world without maps. -- Michael Ondaatje
I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours. -- Ken Jennings
War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change. -- Muhammad Ali
Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet. -- Kelly Link
There are those who follow maps, and those who make them. -- Alberto Villoldo
The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul. -- Bob Dylan
Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. -- Chris Brogan
Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. -- Rolf Potts
On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves. -- Bryan Appleyard
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made. -- Susanna Clarke
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. -- David Mitchell
And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau. -- W. H. Auden
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps -- Bob Black
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. -- Donna Farhi
I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going -- Debby Ryan
All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. -- Michael Ondaatje
Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. -- Richard Brautigan
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. -- Gail Pool
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them. -- Seth Godin
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world. -- Ray Kroc
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering. -- Charles C. Mann
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. -- David E. Goldberg
Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found. -- Debby Ryan
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination. -- Roy Bennett
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape -- Loren Eiseley
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. -- Loren Eiseley
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish. -- Robert S. Kaplan
I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. -- Robert James Thomson
The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker. -- David Nabarro
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. -- Peggy McIntosh
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. -- Jose Saramago
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. -- Karl E. Weick
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. -- Audre Lorde
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. -- Roseanne Barr
The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth. -- Calvin Miller
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns -- Jonathan Swift
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps. -- Natalie Goldberg
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. -- C. S. Lewis
Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps. -- Bob Dylan
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. -- Gerald Durrell
The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail. -- Adrienne Rich
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? -- Carl Sagan
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. -- Alain de Botton
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. -- Robert Ballard
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. -- Antonio Damasio
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. -- Carl Sagan
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject. -- Harold Morowitz
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps. -- Carlo Ratti
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
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
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do. -- Dennis Crowley
There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised. -- Gordon Livingston

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