"Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist."

-- Steven Pinker

#Psychology Quotes #Mind Quotes #Fabric Quotes

“Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel, And then hide the heat in the car door... God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins, Give me a whole tribe! And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe.”
“The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!”
“Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.”

Source : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”
“She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.”
“I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!”
“Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).”
“I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong,”
“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

Source : "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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