Making Sense
"Every node of experience is deep, has a pattern, and can be traced."
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Making Sense
"Semiosis sustains, permeates, and gives birth to everything we know."
Making Sense
"To trace the evolution of a sign's meaning, in order to understand the sign's hidden essence, we need passion."
Making Sense
"Once we 'break the surface' of what's given, we learn that no phenomenon is ever obvious."
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"We are ‘working amongst the ruins’ so there’s a scope to be creative and brave."
Making Sense
"Everything is or can be significant and worthy of our time."
Making Sense
"The real power of semiotics lies in understanding how consumers create their own meaning systems."
Making Sense
"We're all semioticians — we all 'decode' as part of our everyday lives."
Making Sense
"You need to be comfortable with uncertainty, contradiction, and change."
Making Sense
"We're surrounded by messages. The semiotician asks: How have these been configured?"
Making Sense
"Cultivate a 'helicopter' view on things, concepts, and problems."
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"We are not leaders, we are guides and pathfinders."
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"Each new semiotics project is an Indiana Jones-type adventure."
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"Semiotics succeeds because of its vast and ambitious scope."