Metaphors

"Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible."

— Johan Huizinga

"A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on."

— G.C. Lichtenberg

Philosophies for getting better

Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.

-- Nick Gleason

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

-- Winston Churchill

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.

— Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)