Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much…

Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with…

— Christopher Alexander

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

— Ronald Graham

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…

— Thomas Carlyle

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow…

— Deena Metzger

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern…

— William Shakespeare

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition…

— Lysa TerKeurst

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent…

— Nate Silver

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…

— Seth Shostak

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists…

— Linda Olsson

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

— Frederick Lenz

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck