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> [“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with other words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/words-in-the-head-are-sticky-and-social-creatures-when-you-finally/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

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## More by Greg Carlson

> [“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/words-in-the-head-are-sticky-and-social-creatures-when-you-finally/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/robbed-of-a-rapt-audience-advertisers-know-that-influencing-how-you/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/the-thing-about-language-is-that-once-you-start-getting-analytical/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/every-question-was-also-an-opportunity-to-create-an-impression-that/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/teaching-is-the-art-of-serendipity-each-of-us-has-the-experience-of/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/learning-to-be-aware-of-what-you-unconsciously-know-may-depend-on-a/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/to-knock-today-s-prestige-dialects-off-their-pedestals-it-helps-to/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/you-might-think-of-the-barrier-between-fiction-and-reality-as-being-a/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/as-the-unexpected-becomes-ordinary-the-spotlight-shifts-once-again-to/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/no-other-species-flees-from-boredom-with-as-much-urgency-as-we-do-we/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

> [“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less on selling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlson/when-the-marketplace-became-crowded-with-scores-of-similar-products/)

[Greg Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlson/)

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