Unfamiliar Territory Quotes:

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

- Steven Wright

topic: Success, Funny Inspirational, Failure, Photographic Memory, Murphys Law

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

- Sally Ride

source: Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

topic: Travel, Adventure, History, Unfamiliar Territory, New Territory

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

topic: Photography, Travel, Encounters, Unfamiliar Territory

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

- Scott Weiland

topic: Territory, Break, Harder, Unfamiliar Territory, New Territory

When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Jobs, Thinking, New Job, Status Updates, Funny Bumper Sticker

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

- Cyril Falls

source: Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”

topic: Acceptance, Tradition, Ready, Unfamiliar Territory

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Patriotic, People, Soul, American Patriotic, Unfamiliar Territory

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Finding Yourself, Territory, Familiar, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliar Territory

I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that...We don't normally see light like that. But we all know it. So this is no unfamiliar territory - or not unfamiliar light. I like to have this kind of light that reminds us of this other place we know.

- James Turrell

topic: Dream, Rain, Light, Unfamiliar Territory

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

- Paul Fix

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, People, Territory, Lost In Thought, Unfamiliar Territory

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

- Chinua Achebe

source: FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

topic: Self, Shoes, Understanding, Deeper Understanding, Unfamiliar Territory

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

- T.I.

source: "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

topic: Artist, Albums, Tasks, Overseeing, Unfamiliar Territory

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

- Toby Keith

source: Song: In Other Words, Album: Boomtown

topic: Fall, Heart, Stories, Falling For You, Unfamiliar

Five Truths about Fear Truth 1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

- Susan Jeffers

topic: Feel Better, Pushing Through, Long, Unfamiliar Territory

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

- Steven Wright

topic: Humor, Territory, Lost, Unfamiliar, Lost In Thought

When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

- Oleta Adams

topic: Integrity, Who I Am, Quality, Stranded, Chasing Money

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

- Roz Savage

topic: Mean, Comfort, Savages, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliar Territory

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

- Eugene H. Peterson

topic: Jesus, Godly, Reflection, Active Participation, Prayerful