Patterns Quotes

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

— Alexander Suvorov

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

— Tuli Kupferberg

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

— Ronald Graham

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

— James Purefoy

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

— Eric Alterman

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

— Alice Childress

“what makes him a professional is his consistency”

— Brainard Carey

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

— Kathleen Tessaro

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

— Fritjof Capra

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

— Marshall McLuhan

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

— Skeet Ulrich

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

— Rupert Sheldrake

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— Marianne Williamson

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

— William Walker Atkinson

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread…

— Dean Koontz

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must…

— Ralph Ellison

Through the Savior's Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive "power from on high" to face the challenges…

— Robert D. Hales

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to…

— Robert Greene

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of…

— Richard P. Feynman

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and…

— Steven Pinker

If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I…

— Rick Riordan

Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a…

— Rick Riordan

Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation…

— Ilana Mercer

“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do…

— Sean Norris

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…

— John Holdren

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some…

— Temple Grandin

It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an…

— Christopher Alexander

Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience…

— Antonio Damasio

The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with…

— Kehinde Wiley

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children…

— J. C. Ryle

I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness…

— Roger Housden

If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return…

— Richard Moss

"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more…

— Kenny Smith

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily…

— Thomas Merton

The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner