Terrain Quotes
87 quotes by 80 authors
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
— Bono
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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for…
— Paul Virilio
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We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)…
— Sun Tzu
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I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large…
— Yuri Gagarin
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his…
— J. G. Ballard
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I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a…
— Paul Caponigro
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)…
— Roland Barthes
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate…
— Thomas Piketty
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The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with…
— Pope John Paul II
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The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing…
— Tom Weiskopf
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Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in…
— Noel Tichy
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On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
— Sun Bin
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
— Christopher McDougall
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The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.
— Joe Teti
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At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove.
— Joe Teti
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We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency,…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is…
— Rose Tremain
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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,…
— Theodor Herzl
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