Barack Obama Quotes

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.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

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

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

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

We were just looking at maps.

A map is not a journey.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

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.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

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.

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.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.