Albert Einstein
Physicist
"You can't use an old map to explore a new world."
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Maps
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Willie Nelson
Musician, Actor
"There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart"
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns"
Dennis Crowley
Entrepreneur
"Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do."
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"I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."
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"You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest."
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"I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening."
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"['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day."
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"Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them."
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"You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map."
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"I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest."
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"There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment."
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"Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place."
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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth."
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"You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map. You may find local companies that have nothing wrong with them at all. A company that I found, Western Insurance Securities, was trading for $3/share when it was earning $20/share!! I tried to buy up as much of it as possible. No one will tell you about these businesses. You have to find them."
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"One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success."
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"I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures."
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"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"
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"A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map."
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"Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see."
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