Science values static patterns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

— Leslie Morgan Steiner