Patterns Quotes

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.