It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.” — John Verndon Copy Share Image
I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do. — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
A stylish throw. A good quality throw can last a lifetime and adds a dash of color and pattern as well as… — Nina Campbell Copy Share Image
Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image