Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation.
Daniel Levitin
MusicBrainPerceptionTimingMap
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
HomeRacismSorryLoanMapSystem
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Jack Dangermond
MistakePeopleComputersEarlyMap
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
Fidel Castro
NameBornMapNeverCubaI Was Born
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
Anatoly Karpov
WorldBackGeographyChessMapIdea
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
John Pomfret
MeArmyHelpMapMoreQuestion
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
Robert D. Kaplan
YouCountryLooksMapPoorFirst
I'm a big believer in puking out all your thoughts in a single sitting and getting some version of the work down, because the alternative just prolongs the agony. The first draft is hideous and ajskdlkdfksjdfslfjk, but it's just a map for where the big blocks go.
Mary H.K. Choi
WorkThoughtsDownGoSittingMap
Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He's just an amazing guy.
Mo Farah
AmazingYouMapHonestGuyJust
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
Dougray Scott
LoveDoingMapWonderfulFilmAgain
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
Colin Farrell
BusinessYourselfYouPlansMapGet
Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.
Arancha Gonzalez
WorldPoliticalLookMapOilSuffer
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
William Labov
AmericaMapNeverUnitedHereOnly
President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.
Paula Poundstone
MyselfHatePushDownMapPresident
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
Nina Easton
WordsFreeBorderTryingLongMap
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Marilyn Ferguson
LightTraditionCreateMapWithout
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
Ken Jennings
ChildMeWashingtonMapFlorida
You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.
Gus Van Sant
PathFunStoryPlanYouMap
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.
Eric Kripke
ActionStorySurpriseYouWantMap
I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.
Charlotte Dujardin
WorkMoneyMeMapHardWhere
What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.
Sarah Parcak
DataLandscapeNASAFlowMapSee
With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?
TimePastToolsWhyMapProtect
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.
Paul Greengrass
JourneyTruthEndTryingActingMap
The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.
Frank Drake
DangerousWillMapNeverSeenEven
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