Quotes of: Road-map Keyword

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

It was a map. A really crudely drawn map of trees, mountains that looked like upside-down Vs, and stick people. Apparently, drawing was not one of Athena's skills.

Sentinel

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Ken Jennings

It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.

Dennis Crowley

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

David McCandless

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

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road?

Bavarian

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?

German

What is the use of running when you're on the wrong road?

German

One thing I want to make clear: I don’t think our old maps are bad. They deserve to be honored for their intent to help guide us safely through life. This is one of the reasons why, when we try to "push through" resistance, it seems to get even har...

The Map of Your Life

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

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...

A Grief Observed

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

The Map of Love

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The Map of Love

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

The Map of Love

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

The Map of Lost Memories

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The Map of the Sky

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

The Map of Time

There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

The Map of Time