Brian Patten Quotes
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.
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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
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There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
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We love things we love what they are.
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Loneliness is a required course for leadership.
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On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
