James Geary quotes
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“You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.”
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“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”
-- James GearySource : James Geary (2011). “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World”, p.8, Harper Collins
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“I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.”
-- James GearySource : James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.”
-- James GearySource : James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.”
-- James GearySource : "On Originality". Blog Post, jamesgeary.com. June 22, 2007.
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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.”
-- James GearySource : "Metaphors in Mind". The Macmillan Dictionary blog, www.macmillandictionaryblog.com. April 11, 2011.
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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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“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.”
-- James GearySource : "Metaphorically speaking". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.
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“Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.”
-- James GearySource : James Geary (2011). “The World in a Phrase”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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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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“The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.”
-- James GearySource : James Geary (2011). “The World in a Phrase”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.”
-- James GearySource : "Tube driver, footballer, rock star, terror victim: they're all Euro heroes" by Mark Townsend, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.
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