Quotes About Land Surveying

#1. If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone, and I'd recommend working as a surveyor's assistant or office staff before committing to the necessary schooling.

Mark Mason

#2. I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be very physical work, but there is a strong intellectual and technological component as well.

Mark Mason

#3. Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

Mark Mason

#4. I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

Andrew Wylie

#6. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.

Wayne Dyer

#7. Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.

Mark Mason

#8. You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls

Margaret Thatcher

#9. You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

Grigory Sanakoev

#10. Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Merle Haggard

#11. To sit at a table with nourishing food in front of you and the people you love all around you yet not feel thankful reveals not only a lack of self worth but a certain degree of foolishness as well.

Kurt Michael Friese

#12. Even though I was scared to stay behind, scared to turn into my parents, I was just as afraid of leaving.

R.K. Ryals

#13. I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

Douglas Adams

#15. Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Mark Mason