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 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
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 have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
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
If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it… — Mary Elizabeth Ellis Copy Share Image
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
![“[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school…” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/p-j-o-rourke-184_behavior_kurt-vonnegut-once-said-if-you-ever-want_97504.jpg)
![“The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered…” quote by Michael Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/michael-horton-14597_aging_the-key-to-maturity-is-time-and-communit_606437.jpg)
![“I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.” quote by Dave Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/dave-matthews-2023_flaws_i-guess-and-it-may-be-a-flaw-that-i-thin_869821.jpg)
