Patterns Quotes · Page 10

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

— Brooke Shields

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

— George MacDonald

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

— Jasmine Guinness

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

— Paul McGann

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

— Dan Millman

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

— Julian Barnes

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

— Maurice Strong

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

— Frank Herbert

Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history…

— Geoffrey Elton

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

— Alison Lurie

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if…

— Eleanor Catton

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that…

— Daniel Kahneman

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come…

— Cathy O'Neil

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

— Pauline Oliveros

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I…

— Bruce Springsteen

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support…

— Arthur C. Brooks

Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface-…

— Nick Cave

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk…

— Ted Nugent

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into…

— Sun Tzu

I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables,…

— Brian Chippendale

Does anyone know why Will left?" Charlotte demanded, standing at the head of a long table around which the rest of them…

— Cassandra Clare

Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation,…

— Alice S Rossi

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they…

— Jeanette Winterson

The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then…

— Joan Baez

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your…

— Richard G. Scott

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

So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and…

— Jane Roberts

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting…

— Edward de Bono

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego…

— Willa Cather

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the…

— Russell Kirk

Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.

— Phillips Brooks

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

— Danny Elfman

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Bill Hicks

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

— Anais Nin

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.

— Winston Marshall