Believe the terrain, not the map

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

I believe in doing roles that make me explore new terrain as an actor.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism.

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.

I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering of the modern age.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.

I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

'Shank' is set in 2015, and it's set in a post-apocalyptic world where the main commodity is food. It's about how five young gentlemen travel around that harsh terrain and survive.

When I'm writing songs, my favourite thing to do is to try and rabbit-trail and go places I've never gone to before. Just like exploring a new terrain or a new country or something.

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

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