"The mind works like a garden."

— Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (1926 - )


Work Title
Place of Publication
Gretna, LA
Publisher
Pelican
Date
1975
Metaphor
"The mind works like a garden."
Metaphor in Context
The mind works like a garden. Everyone knows if you plant beans you won’t raise potatoes—you will raise beans. Obviously, you don’t plant a bean to raise a bean. You plant a bean to raise lots of beans. Between planting and harvest there is a tremendous increase in the number of beans. That’s the way the mind works. Whatever you plant in the mind is going to come up—multiplied. Plant a negative or a positive and you reap in multiples because between planting and harvest, imagination enters the picture and multiplies the result.
(p. 227-8)
Categories
Provenance
Contributed by Suzanne Morgen; searching GoogleBooks
Citation
Ziglar, Zig. See You at the Top. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Group, 2000. <Link to GoogleBooks>
Date of Entry
12/20/2009
Date of Review
06/16/2010

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.