"The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again."

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Cormac McCarthy

#Names Quotes #Desert Quotes #World Quotes

“We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.”

Source : 1939 After an early experiment at Columbia University which proved the possibility of splitting the atom. Quoted in James B Simpson Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).
“Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.”
“The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.”

Source : Giambattista Vico, Leon Pompa (1982). “Vico”, p.55, CUP Archive
“American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.”

Source : "Corey Clark Tells FOX: 'Idol' Defamed Me". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2005.
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.”
“It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume
“I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better.”
“First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their intentions and to prioritize what fits into the story versus secondary goals and issues. Third, there is possibly an artifact here - great storytellers can make their exploits and achievements sound very exciting and memorable. Successful leaders who are not good storytellers won't get the acknowledgement and appreciation they deserve.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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