Seung Quotes

#1. My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it.

Hani

#2. The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Jean Kerr

#3. Every love is different, I said to myself. Love is love, but the way people experience it is different. One hundred people love in one hundred different ways. So there's no love that isn't special

Lee Seung-u

#4. When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Sargent Shriver

#5. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Seung Sahn

#6. I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Seung Sahn

#7. Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

Sheldon Harnick

#9. Never give up. Look forward to the future, and don't give a damn about haters

Jang Hyun-seung

#10. There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

Sebastian Seung

#11. There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either.

Steve Alford

#12. If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.

Sebastian Seung

#13. The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are passing around - and it's not the same. The code is not the same for every person.

Sebastian Seung

#14. Pascal meditated upon outer space, but we need only turn our thoughts inward to feel his dread. Inside every one of our skulls lies an organ so vast in its complexity that it might as well be infinite.

Sebastian Seung

#15. Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

Sebastian Seung

#16. She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

Kang Seung-jo

#17. We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Larry Page

#18. Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough.

Han Seung-yeon

#19. To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Sebastian Seung

#20. Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

Liane Moriarty

#21. Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

Seung Sahn

#22. The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

Sebastian Seung

#23. The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Seung Sahn

#24. Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Seung Sahn

#25. Human beings understand too much.

Seung Sahn

#26. Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound.

Seung Sahn

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Spencer Rascoff

#28. When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Seung Sahn

#29. I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

Sebastian Seung

#30. Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Seung Sahn