Patterns Quotes

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.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

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).

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

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.

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.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

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

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.