“Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.”

“Talents are your naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior.”

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”

“I'm a pathetic random pattern. I'm a nonsequential but recurring loser. I'm fluid stupidity.”

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”