"The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it canâ€™t."

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Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Gottschall

#Meaningful Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.”
“At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.”
“I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press
“We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.”
“Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.”
“I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.”
“Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.”

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