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This is one reason people can function well in their environment and still be unable to describe what they do. For example, a person can travel accurately through a city without being able to describe the route precisely.
People function through their use of two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of and knowledge how. Knowledge of—what psychologists call declarative knowledge—includes the knowledge of facts and rules…Knowledge of how—what psychologists call procedural knowledge—is the knowledge that enables a person to perform music, to stop a car smoothly with a flat tire on an icy road, etc.
” Design of Everyday Things, by Dan Norman, p. 57
“But when I ask her about “runner’s high,” she lights up. “Oh, it’s really like an empowerment. And zen at the same time. You feel strong and light, and you feel relaxed.”
‘Wired To Run’: Runner’s High May Have Been Evolutionary Advantage : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while”
Steve Jobs
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“Devout hedonist … agnostic … secular humanist. Seriously, I hate labels. Having been brainwashed from birth as a Calvinist, it took me years to shake my religion entirely. Until recently I still prayed on airplanes, more from rote habit than a belief that a supreme being would protect the tin can I was flying in. I lost my religion by degrees. The first step was witnessing the hypocrisy of the Christians around me as a child. The second was escaping the rigid subculture I grew up in and meeting secular folks who were much more moral and trustworthy than the Christians I was told to revere.”
Julia Scheeres - Author of Jesus Land and A Thousand Lives
“I came up with the title years before the “red state” connotation entered the popular lexicon. I picked the title Jesus Land because the book deals in specious facades, like the amusement park. Beneath the much-hyped “family values” morality of the Bible Belt, you’ll find child abuse, intolerance and racism. Given the rise of the Christian Right in America, I think my book’s exploration of this sanctimony is timely.”
Julia Scheeres - Author of Jesus Land and A Thousand Lives
“Escuela Caribe had inadvertently given me an appreciation for Latin culture—whose passionate exuberance was the welcome antithesis of my Teutonic background—and I was majoring in Spanish.”
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres, p. 350
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
Seneca
“…as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what i’m thinking; it’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination…All I do is present a few hypotheses or paraphrase the issue. Or find an analogy between the structure of the problem and something else.”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 120
“For them, running sixty miles was an unknown experience, and each body part had its own excuse. I understood completely, but all I wanted them to do was be quiet and keep on running.”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 109
“…for this was the first time I’d ever run more than a marathon. For me this was the Strait of Gibraltar, beyond which lay an unknown sea. What lay in wait beyond this, what unknown creatures were living there, I didn’t have a clue. In my own small way I felt the same fear that sailors of old must have felt.”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 107
“But those of us hoping to have long careers as professional writers have to develop an autoimmune system of our own that can resist the dangerous (in some cases lethal) toxin that resides within. Do this, and we can more efficiently dispose of even stronger toxins. In other words, we can create even more powerful narratives to deal with these. But you need a great deal of energy to create an immune system and maintain it over a long period. You have to find that energy somewhere, and where else to find it but in our own basic physical being?”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 97
“In the midst of this flow, I’m aware of myself as one tiny piece in the gigantic mosaic of nature. I’m just a replaceable natural phenomenon, like the water in the river that flows under the bridge toward the sea.”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 91
“At around twenty-three miles I start to hate everything. Enough already!…As these thoughts flit through my mind I gradually start to get angry.”
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 65
What I Talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, p. 65
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