Mental Map Quotes

#1. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

#2. Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.

Nancy Pearcey

#3. The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

Nicholas Carr

#4. I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

Alice Lowe

#5. THE AGENTS DROVE another hour north and crossed the border into Wyoming. Instantly, the car was buffeted by gusts of wind. "Where are the trees?" Baker asked. "They blew away," Singewald said.

C.J. Box

#6. Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.

Emil M. Cioran

#7. Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#8. Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.

Lynn Margulis

#9. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

Daniel Clowes

#11. When you live in the jungle you have to live by its rules; the strong get to make it to tomorrow while the weak become food.

K'wan

#12. Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Mac Thornberry

#13. We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.

Deepak Chopra

#14. What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#15. A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

William Walker Atkinson

#16. I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.

Akira Suzuki

#18. We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Marcus Buckingham

#19. Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Fiona Apple