Terrain Quotes

87 quotes by 80 authors

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Bono
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The terrain of Adamâ€™s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing… — Tom Weiskopf
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran
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
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. — Sun Bin
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
The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast. — Joe Teti
At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove. — Joe Teti
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
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
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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