With this conviction in mind, I determined early this summer to look up Gibson and try to get to know him a little better.
For me, the pleasure of reading is concentrated in the author's conviction — a mind not my own making itself entirely intelligible, manifest, and articulate.
Brazil, frightened but with ten minutes left to scramble out of a hole, came back at Uruguay in body, but without any real conviction in mind.
With that conviction in mind, the fund actively pursued an investment in DDG, which has been profitable (via non-tracking advertising) since 2014 so was not in need of a cash injection.
Nor was there necessarily anything preposterous about his conviction that mind-expanding drugs might be worth looking into.
Recognize why you don't want to do these things and then keep those convictions in mind when people ask you to do things.
Later in the paper, Minsky writes: When intelligent machines are constructed, we should not be surprised to find them as confused and as stubborn as men in their convictions about mind-matter, consciousness, free will, and the like.
Selling, Paul Gray Hoffman once said, is "the process of transferring a conviction from the mind of the seller to that of the buyer". It was an apothegm he practiced all his adult life as an automobile salesman, head of the Studebaker Corporation, administrator of the Marshall Plan, president of the Ford Foundation and, lastly, as administrator of the United Nations Development Program.
We must return to Nicholas' underlying conviction that our minds are images of God's mind and that this connection between them is constant and thoroughgoing and thus should never be overlooked.
This is not the reflection of a day, but belongs to the most deeply rooted convictions of my mind.
