Quote by Jonah Lehrer Download Open image ““The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.”” — Jonah Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You see, when something exciting and inexplicable happens, the world wants to know about it; but if it remains unexplained for too long, the… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“The world is bigger and harder to understand than you think... You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don't want to.” — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
