“Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.”

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.

One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.

I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

People don’t hurt what they love.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.

My work is about helping humanity.

When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”

Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

I don’t think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it’s finding the right thing.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.