Javier Zanetti

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it's at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.

Argentinian Athlete

Robert Redford

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

American Actor

Goldie Hawn

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.

American Actress

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

American Novelist

Frank Grillo

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Zawe Ashton

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

English Actress

Jeff Bridges

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Geoffrey West

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

British Physicist

Jeff Dean

Deep learning is a really powerful metaphor for learning about the world.

American Musician

Lynn Nottage

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

American Playwright

Metaphors are abundant in everyday language, often without us noticing.

Common Usage

Metaphors add emotional depth, helping you express feelings more powerfully.

Emotional Impact

Remember, metaphors describe something figuratively, not by its actual attributes.

Not Literal

Metaphors are crucial in poetry to create vivid and original imagery for the reader.

Poetic Device

Metaphors connect abstract concepts to familiar objects or experiences.

Conceptual Link

Good metaphors stimulate the imagination, creating a mental image to grasp complex ideas.

Sparking Imagination

 is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people.

Bring on the learning...

 In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,

The five major world...

 And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".

Paper towns and why...

 And it turns out that, in fact, the network patterns of the outside world mimic a lot of the network patterns of the internal world of a human brain. So the metaphor I'd like to use, I can take from a story of a great idea that's quite recent --

Where good ideas come...

 But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words. Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field

James Geary, metaphorical...

 a huge amount of information data we irrigated with networks and connectivity and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments and all right kind of milking the metaphor a little bit but it's a really fertile medium and

The beauty of data...

 that um that mayor bowser said before because as she talked about the economic and social ripple effects of this pandemic and this virus i think that's a really good metaphor for how we also have to think medically and how i know

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.

What makes a poem … a...

 The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its an insect sings from a branch passing by in the middle of the river. Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image

The art of the metaphor...

 revolution is coming towards us and this time we can see it and we have a choice we can make we can use the metaphors of the rusty machine age or we can consult biological wisdom and if we choose the latter