Quotes by James Geary - Page 1

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
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Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
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Events
Heroism
Response
Results
Extreme
Often
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In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.
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Lying
Rooms
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Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
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Worthless
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A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
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Smile
Metaphor
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Stills
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Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
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Creation
Detection
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Patterns
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
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Opportunity
Doors
Faces
Needs
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You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
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Wall
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The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
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Mind
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
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Aphorism
Believe
Categories
Firsts
Best Believe I Believe
Wild
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There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
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Metaphor
Concept
Context
Creates
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
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Brain
Hands
Light
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By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
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Discovery
Thinking
Together
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Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
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Thinking
Way
World
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Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.
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Influence
Mind
Sight
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Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.
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Aphorism
Delicious
Enough
Portions
Sushi
Come
Exquisitely
Formed
Small
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.
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Essentials
Secret
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London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.
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New York
Brain
Cities
Labyrinth
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