Marvin Minsky Quotes

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

Marvin Minsky

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Man

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Integrity
  • Own

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Door
  • Working
  • Rules

• come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Air

• If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fear
  • Determination
  • Insecurity

• I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Rock

• Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Mind