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Paradigms & Perceptions Quotes

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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

– Al Neuharth

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

– Julia Cameron

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.

– Seymour Papert

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

– Thomas Huxley

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

– Marvin Minsky

POINT OF VIEW: Hold up a quarter to someone else so s/he can see the head side and you can see the tail side. Ask them to describe what they see. When they say “George Washington”, etc. get a puzzled expression on your face, then eventually disclose: “No, its not. Its an Eagle”, etc. reflecting what you see on your side. Dramatically demonstrates how we view things differently.

– Grant M. Bright

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

– Marie Curie

One person’s constant is another person’s variable.

– Susan Gerhart

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

My reality check just bounced.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

– Aldous Huxley

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

– Jules Renard

Let me dispel a few rumors before they fester into facts.

– Robin Williams

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Just because something has always been done in a certain way is never a sufficient reason for continuing to do it that way.

– Clarence Birdseye

It’s not reality that’s important, but how you perceive things.

It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.

– Roger von Oech

It’s always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly concerned about.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

– Rene Descartes

If you never climb a hill, you will never know it is different from a plain.

– Texas Bix Bender

If you don’t get out of the box you were raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

– Angelina Jolie

I wear my wife’s eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

– Jayson Feinburg

I like my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me, whereas others expect me to fit old measurements.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

– Norman Douglas

He who is good with a hammer tends to think that everything is a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

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