And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must…

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

— Chester W. Nimitz

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

— Jimmy Buffett

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many…

— Jared Diamond

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out…

— Diana Gabaldon

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you…

— Danny Carey

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…

— Seth Shostak

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists…

— Linda Olsson

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

— Frederick Lenz

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck