Murray Walker Quotes

If you want to go east, don't go west.

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I'm very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

I get lost a lot.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.

The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

When I dance, I picture myself and the floor in my head.

I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

I use maps in my phone a great deal because I can't tell left from right. Having easy access to maps has given me a completely different life. When I first moved to London, I couldn't get anywhere and spent so much money on cabs because I couldn't figure it out.

As a child, I had always wanted to know what lay at the end of a corridor or behind a door in a picture, so I did a floorplan and elevations of Angelina's house and learned my way around it. The idea was that children should start to feel at home in it.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

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

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

I like wearing necklaces, because it lets me know when I'm upside down.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.