Top 30 James Geary Quotes
#1. Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
James Geary
#2. I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.
Julia Roberts
#3. Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Butch Cassidy
#4. 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.
James Geary
#5. Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.
Jon Oringer
#7. Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.
James Geary
#8. Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink the milk of another species (enslaved cows and goats), and we have come to consider it normal when, it is actually a pretty perverse form of sexual abuse!
Sharon Gannon
#9. Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
James Geary
#10. That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.
Paul Reiser
#11. Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
James Geary
#12. In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.
James Geary
#13. Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
James Geary
#14. You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
#15. I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.
Ashley Greene
#16. Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
James Geary
#17. Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
James Geary
#18. Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
James Geary
#19. A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.
Voltaire
#20. I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
James Geary
#21. The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
James Geary
#22. By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,
James Geary
#23. Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.
John Schneider
#24. Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
James Geary
#25. You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
James Geary
#26. A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
James Geary
#27. There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
James Geary
#28. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
James Geary
#29. It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.
Derek Drouin
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