Pulling wisdom out of pooh

I'm a lover of quotations. Just as a well-conceived image can set a stalled creative mind in motion, so too can thoughtful prose clear away stubborn mental cobwebs. One quote has stuck with me as a personal favorite for a very long time, because I think it perfectly encapsulates the challenge each of us faces from time to time.

"HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. " -- AA Milne, Winnie the Pooh