James

“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

“The empty mind is a dominant mind. It can draw other minds into its rhythm, the way a vacuum sucks up dirt or the way the person on the bottom of a seesaw controls the person on the top. When I hear a runner say he “runs his own race,” what I hear is bushido.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking