“I sometimes feel as though I’m playing center field with 10 people hitting fly balls to me at one time.”
Robert W. Haack
more infosource: quoted in “Big Board’s Haack: A 10-Month Appraisal,” by Vartanig G. Vartan, The New York Times, July 11, 1968.
category: analogy, baseball, chaos, stock exchange
medium: Newspaper article
“Like a fish which swims calmly in deep water, I felt all about me the secure supporting pressure of my own life. Ragged, inglorious, and apparently purposeless, but my own.”
Iris Murdoch
more infosource: Under the Net (New York: Viking, 1964), 275–76.
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category: analogy, fish, independence, life, ocean
medium: fiction
via: William Powers“Central Park is to nature as Reddi Wip is to a cow.”
Bill McKibben
more infosource: “Apartment,” The New Yorker, March 17, 1986: 43–89.
category: analogy, Central Park, cow, nature
medium: magazine article
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud
more infosource: “The Dissection of the Psychical Personality,” New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1965), 90.
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category: analogy, communication, psychology, writing
medium: lecture
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