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Certainly design patterns and tested usability principles should be followed, but there’s always room to do or present things differently.

The reality is that starting something within an existing company requires adopting new patterns of behavior – essentially, rebooting your brain.

…the vast majority of couples who drift apart do so slowly, over time, in a snowballing pattern of blame and self-justification.

You keep the message separate from the messenger. In this way, we might learn how to change our minds before our brains freeze our thoughts into consistent patterns.

…set your pattern now for achievement of the highest quality. That’s your task assignment for the long term.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.

Symphony… is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair.

Life flows when we put our attention on the larger patterns of which we are a part…

You can’t always wait for the business world to develop a clear new pattern – smart adaptation means not waiting to change until you have no other choice.

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone’s intention.