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Albert Einstein - Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed
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  to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern for December 12th.
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  Today is Gingerbread House Day, celebrating the delicious
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  tradition of building edible architecture.
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  Gingerbread has been around for centuries, but the tradition of
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  making gingerbread houses specifically began in Germany in
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  the early 1800s. The Brothers Grimm fairy tale
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  Hansel and Gretel, published in 1812, popularized the idea of
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  houses made entirely of suites, and the bakers ran with it.
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  Today, gingerbread housemaking is equal parts art project,
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  engineering challenge, and delicious disaster.
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  Walls collapse, roofs slide off, icing goes everywhere.
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  But that's the point. You're not just building a
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  structure. You're giving imagination a
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  physical form, 1 gumdrop at a time.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from Albert Einstein, who
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  understood the power of imagination.
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  He once said, logic will get you from A to B Imagination will
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  take you everywhere. Einstein's quote captures
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  exactly what happens when you build a gingerbread house.
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  Logic tells you how structural engineering works.
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  Imagination tells you to put a candy cane chimney on a cookie
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  roof held together with frosting.
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  Logic says this is impractical. Imagination says it's
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  magnificent. Gingerbread houses are pure
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  imagination made edible. They defy logic.
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  These structures would never pass inspection in the real
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  world, but they transport us somewhere better than logic ever
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  could, back to childhood, to wonder, to a place where houses
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  can be made of cookies and decorated with dreams.
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  Einstein, despite being one of history's greatest logical
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  minds, understood that imagination is what actually
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  moves us forward. This theory of relativity came
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  from imagining riding on a beam of light, not from calculating a
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  straight line from A to B. Gingerbread houses teach us the
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  same lesson. The correct way to build might
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  make you a stable structure, but imagination gets you a
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  masterpiece covered in gum drops and smarties and frosting.
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  So today, build a gingerbread house or just imagine one.
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  Let logic take the day off. Put doors on roofs, stack
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  candies in impossible ways. Create architecture that exists
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  only in dreams and frosting. Because Einstein was right.
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  Logic will get you from point A to point B.
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  But imagination? Imagination will take you to a
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  house made of cookies. And that's so much better.
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  That's going to do it. For today, I'm Andrew McGivern,
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  signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.