Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.