Patterns Quotes

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that's in the world.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.

I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.