Mapped Out Quotes

#1. News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Jessica Savitch

#2. The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

B.C. Forbes

#3. On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Kirk Hammett

#4. Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Do you believe people can change their fate, or do you think our lives are mapped out before us? I mean, do you think we're each doomed to die a certain death?

Joanne Owen

#6. When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

Gary LeVox

#7. Sitting in the water, she imagined the smell of it, mapped out on her papa's clothes. More than anything, it was the smell of friendship, and she could find it on herself, too. Liesel loved that smell. She would sniff her arm and smile as the water cooled around her.

Markus Zusak

#8. I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.

Sarah McLachlan

#9. Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

Meg White

#10. Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the show, and at the same time, they want to think that showrunners have the story all mapped out in our brains. But it can't be both. In truth, we were usually far ahead of the fan feedback.

Carlton Cuse

#11. Adventure is out there, it's heading our way So grab your scarf and goggles, let's fly! I've mapped out our journey, we're up here to stay. A sunset is our home. A moonbeam we will own. My Spirit of Adventure is you!

Michael Giacchino

#12. You can't avoid the destination mapped out especially for you. But if you choose to, you may take a scenic route.

C.C. Wyatt

#13. Cold calling is not dead. Have the conversation mapped out in advance. Make it your guide of structuring your next sales calls

Timi Nadela

#14. I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

Pattie Boyd

#15. She likes things orderly and predictable and feels secure when her time is mapped out well in advance.

A.S.A Harrison

#16. let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current.

Seneca.

#17. I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

Steve Forbert

#18. I thought I had my life mapped out, thought I had it together. Then you came along and flipped my world on its head. You make me want things I never knew I needed.

J.B. Salsbury

#19. Her life had been mapped out before she was even born, but destiny wasn't to blame. She was just one of those people who never have to decide which way to go in life. She just went where it led, no questions asked.

Walt Cessna

#20. I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out."
"So what happened?"
"I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all,

Sarah Dessen

#21. Langston took the latest red Moleskine notebook that Grandpa bought me and, together with Benny, mapped out a series of clues to find a companion just right for me.

Rachel Cohn

#22. I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Moshe Kasher

#23. We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#24. People come into your life and people leave it ... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Orlando Bloom

#25. Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

Patti Smith

#26. Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

John C. Maxwell

#27. I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Alan Redpath

#28. I'm not just considered a former child star. I'm not considered a black actress. I'm not considered an actress. I've done roles that were written for men. First and foremost is God: I definitely believe in Him having kind of mapped out what my destiny was going to be.

Kim Fields

#29. I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

Caroline Leavitt

#30. I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

Nelson Mandela

#31. Stories have endings; that's why we tell them, for reassurance that there is meaning in our lives. But like a diagnosis, a story can become a prison, a straight road mapped out by the people who went before. Stories are not the truth.

Sarah Moss

#32. Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

John Boehner

#33. Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin

#34. He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#35. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

#36. If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

Ransom Riggs

#37. I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

Jim Crace

#38. Life wasn't meant to be decided at once. That's a part of being human; you decided as you go along. Sure, it might make life easier if you have everything mapped out ahead of time but it can also make it pretty dull.

J.L. Paul

#39. I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.

John Darnielle

#40. Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

Christian D. Larson

#41. I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Jane Goodall

#42. Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

David Luiz

#43. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me.

Stephanie Perkins

#44. All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Iain Banks

#45. Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences ... miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer's imagination.

Lisa De Jong

#46. I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

Jonathan Levine

#47. There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

Bear Grylls

#48. If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

Seth Godin

#49. If I had echolocation I could map out the terrain of ab muscles through sheer force of will. His cut body is meant to be relief mapped the way Braille is meant to be read. With my fingertips.

Julia Kent

#50. So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

Jon Ronson