Jim Valvano Quotes

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

Without geography you're nowhere.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

I am not lost. I am very much alive.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.