Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops,… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah 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
I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in… — Carlos Castaneda 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
'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
