Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away,… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights… — Marisa Tomei 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
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
