Making Sense
"You need to be comfortable with uncertainty, contradiction, and change."
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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."
Making Sense
"We are not leaders, we are guides and pathfinders."
Making Sense
"Each new semiotics project is an Indiana Jones-type adventure."
Making Sense
"Semiotics succeeds because of its vast and ambitious scope."
Making Sense
"Achieving a deep, rich understanding of why we behave the way we do is the most rewarding part of the job."
Making Sense
"Don’t set off to be a semiotician — instead, let semiotics set you off."
Making Sense
"It’s a semiotician’s imagination, open mind, and creative ability which are truly rare."
Making Sense
"Where everyone else sees things, a semiotician sees meaning."
Making Sense
"A semiotician must have an open heart — capable of appreciating the world beyond one's own perspective."
Making Sense
"Powerful cultural insight is the wellspring of change, and change is what we need."
Making Sense
"The skill of the semiotician is to have the muscles for pattern recognition more developed."
Making Sense
"It's essential to cultivate the feeling of being surprised by the ordinary…"