When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Argue Belief Bullheaded Consequence Consequences Conviction Convinced Debate Electricity Fixated Ignorance Ignorant Illogical Lesson Myopic Obstinate Outcome Plead Socket Solution Solve Stubborn Stubbornness Surrender Tunnel Vision Unbending Understanding

However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which rules despotic over pale shadows of past and future. That was Sylvia's genius and her Panic Bird- her total lack of nostalgia. She had no armor. This left her especially vulnerable in New York, where she was removed from the context of her life, severed from that reassuring arc.

~ Elizabeth Winder

Elizabeth Winder Anxiety Depression Nostalgia Tunnel Vision