57 Maps Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Truth Change Women Experience Mountains Our New Offer Human Maps

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. Les Brown

Life You Goals Guide Possible Road Your Show Maps

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

Mathematics Intelligence Indies Execution Make Voyage Did Use Maps

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. Muhammad Ali

Change Poverty Nations Wars Map Maps Fought

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. Abdullah II of Jordan

You Example Country Analysis Syria Be Different Seeing Cost Jordan For Example Than Going Being Different Rewritten Each Maps

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

Alone Words World Possible Objective Structure Only Between Obviously Territory Linguistic Link Then Maps Found Actual Things

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. Antony Beevor

Books Table Pile Spread Which Working Maps

A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative. Ben Dolnick

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

Faith Phones Made Power Google YouTube Design Other Tools Complementary Worships Would Web Data More Computers Devices Provide Ship Dichotomy While Placed Useful Companies Search Maps Apple Two

Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas. Bill Dedman

Good Dangerous Word Will Building Action State Local Local Governments No Guarantee About Prevent Area Take Hazards Discourage Governments Get Public Landslide Even Maps Guarantee

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

Time Risks First Adding States Properties Rivers New Along First Time Oceans Estimation Many Maps Flood Streams Zone Raised

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

Google Own Marketing TV Something My Own Knew Years Left Manager Wanted After Working Product Search Maps Four

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps. Carlo Ratti

Time People Google Browse Networks Talk Real Traffic Text Real Time Urban Them Congestion Capturing Maps Flows

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering. Charles C. Mann

Detailed Small Tend Schematic Bewildering Come Japanese Large Maps Two

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

Writing Mind Clever Cold Worlds Carolina Though He Wrote Vulnerable Climbs Mountain Southern Jack North North Carolina Same While Much Held Landscape Appalachian Who Map Maps Travels Early Two Imagined

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical. Dan Gelber

You Yourself Political First Party States Draw Criteria Tell Critical District Gives Clear Sort Very Political Party Legislators Legislature Really Electoral Helps Maps Seat Florida Basically

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

Google Universe Everything Email Apps Pennies Pretty Entire Per Given More Part Advertising Greater Always Revenue Been Targeted Offer Model Gets While Placement Much Search Maps Away Ever Services

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all. Edward Rutherfurd

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

Education Good Home You Seen Google Our Earth Bad Ability See Bad Stuff Emphasize Stuff Going Want Place Really Use Explosion Special Special Place Maps Why Level Here Phenomenal

I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. George Galloway

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. Gus Van Sant

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