"The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."

-- Marvin Minsky

#Brain Quotes #Making Changes Quotes #Principal Quotes

“We find what we are looking for.”
“We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”
“A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.”
“What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.”
“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.”

Source : James Clavell (2013). “Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga”, p.196, Hachette UK
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.”

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