"Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome."

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Source : Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

Gerd Gigerenzer

#Ideas Quotes #Welcome Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.”
“One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.”
“In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.”
“Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.”
“I work like a gardener.”
“I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.”
“My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!”

Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”
“Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.”

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