The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Don't Be Afraid Of Wolf Leading Pack Of Sheeps, Be Afraid Of A Sheep Leading The Pack Of Wolfs. — FazeelAhmed Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;” — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the… — David Kord Murray Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it... But if it gets hit… — Tyler Hoyt Copy Share Image
Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills;… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The… — David Perkins Copy Share Image
“He was now beginning to wonder whether the jigsaw was the correct metaphor for relationships between me and women after all. It… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options— You can choose how you feel or you you can let your… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“He thought the suit was changing his life. What it really wanted was his obedience.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the violence that trapped him. It was the feeling that he had finally become someone worth noticing.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I think martial arts, when it's practiced with a complete idea, is a metaphor for life. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
“who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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