I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the… — William M. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization. — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her.… — S. Bear Bergman Copy Share Image
To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
Your 30s is the time to embrace bold, zingy colour patterns and to follow trends while taking time to get used to… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better… — Jim Schwab Copy Share Image
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex… — William Ross Ashby Copy Share Image
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image