#patter

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#choices #completely #continue #either #i

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#defamation #games #here #how #liberals

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#entirely #guided #hear #i #mostly

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#details #entrepreneurs #great #listeners #often

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#breaking-a-habit #breaking-bad-habits #change-a-bad-habit #change-bad-habits #habit

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been ↗

— James Patterson

#james #max #maximum #patterson #ride