“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.” FirstsMotherCommonPracticeExpressionSolutionsSightMetaphorAidsWitFeaturesSpeakersRespectableJamHaltConfrontingExpediencyHomelyMother Wit Author:Laura Riding
“Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.” FirstsSocialTermExpressionDevelopmentSolutionsThirdsPropertyCommunismReverseSocial DevelopmentThesisSynthesisAntithesis Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology
“I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.” ThinkingShouldRealProblemExpressionCostSolutionsSafetyReal Life Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.” ThinkingWayHelpingProblemUsedKnownPaintingExpressionSolutionsNegativeIntentionSurfaceSpokesExpressiveNeutrality Author:Jasper Johns
“One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.” PeopleThinkingWayMayChildrenImportantPlaySeemsProcessKnownChildhoodExpressionFindingsSolutionsDiscoveryInventionOne WayCombinationYieldNew DiscoveriesNew Inventions Author:Fred Rogers
“Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.” ProblemCultureIndividualAbilityExistenceCreativityExpressionSolutionsSomething NewSolution To A Problem Author:Betty Edwards