Patterns Quotes
We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.
It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.
In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
As I've matured, I've developed more confidence in pattern mixing and in having a slimmer fit and in taking some risks, and I enjoy it!
Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?