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Paradigms & Perceptions Quotes

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Habits are like gravity – they pull on us. Just like a rocket, once it escapes earth’s pull, it floats free, but it requires a lot of initial energy to break free. So we can break free of bad habits if we put enough energy into it.

Habits are like a cable – we weave a strand of it every day and soon it becomes very difficult to break.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

– Albert Einstein

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

– Albert Szent-Gyorgys, Nobel Laureate

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

Bird to fish: “How’s the water?” Fish to bird: “What water?”

BELIEF creates the actual fact.

– William James

Before I built a wall, I’d ask to know what I was walling in or out.

Ancient maps and the symbols on them can be used to demonstrate the “paradigm” of the times – the thinking of the people and civilizations that drew the maps.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

– EH Gombrich

Almost every significant breakTHROUGH is a breakWITH.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

– Leonardo da Vinci

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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