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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • Government
  • Commitment

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Family
  • School
  • Kids

• Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Epidemics
  • Bioterrorism

• After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Criticism

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

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Mind