Patterns Quotes

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

I love everything about fashion. I even love the fittings and watching it evolve from a pattern to a muslin to the final product.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington. And Democrats are about to anoint someone who represents everything this country is tired of.

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.