James Geary famous quotes

03-28-2025

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
-- James Geary

#Wall #Spine
A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
-- James Geary

#Smile #Metaphor #Simile
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
-- James Geary

#Believe #Firsts #Aphorism
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
-- James Geary

#Opportunity #Doors #Needs
In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.
-- James Geary

#Lying #Errors #Rooms
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

#Sight #Mind #Influence
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.
-- James Geary

#New York #Cities #Brain
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 Geary

#Thinking #Secret #Essentials
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
-- James Geary

#Light #Hands #Brain
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,
-- James Geary

#Thinking #Discovery #Together
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
-- James Geary

#Mind #Information #Gaps
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
-- James Geary

#Heroism #Events #Results

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