Bart Kosko Quotes

The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Hanged

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Idea

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Present

• Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Successful

• Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Never

• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Effective

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Mind

• Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Life
  • Live

• I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Done
  • She
  • Words

• But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

  

  William James
  • Enough
  • Facts

• The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

  

  Bart Kosko
  • Mind
  • Probability
  • Arrow