"Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!"

--

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

Mark Mason

#Reading Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Land Quotes

“I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'”
“You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.”
“The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.”
“Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.”
“There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.”

Source : "Say what? The arcane wisdom of Jaden and Willow Smith" by Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2014.
“An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.”

Source : David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House
“Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.”

You may also like:

Eddie Martinez
Guitarist
Pat Martin
Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Simon Tam
Musician