30 Quotes by James Geary

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

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.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

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