#iv

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#beautiful #discharged #eventually #girl #i

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. ↗

— Emily Watson

#attention #because #calculating #figuring #generally

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#am #believer #culture #future #future generations

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. ↗

— William Alexander

#care #deepest #din #doth #least

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#champion #every #hated #i #life