Capacity Quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce Download Open image “One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Full life Life Metaphor
“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff 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
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
