Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face.… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Night Train Lane was the best defensive back to ever play the game. I tried to pattern my game after him because… — Herb Adderley Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Teachers can use technology-based assessments to inform their instruction. These assessments can quickly produce data and surface patterns that help teachers identify… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image