When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of expanding one's thinking to accommodate contradictions and complexities, akin to the vastness of the universe.
Maxine Hong Kingston suggests that just as the universe is vast and contains many mysteries, so too should our minds be open and expansive. This openness allows us to accept paradoxes and contradictions in life, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of the complexities around us. It encourages flexibility in thought and an acknowledgment that not all answers are straightforward or binary.
Themes
MindParadoxUniverseThoughtWisdom
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing complexity in problem-solving.
More from Maxine Hong Kingston
All quotes βThere can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
Similar quotes
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
Bill WattersonRead
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
Thomas A KempisRead
The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.
Deepak ChopraRead
When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations β¦ we could design a better world.
Dan ArielyRead
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.
Jill Bolte TaylorRead