Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her. — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there… — Fred Foster Copy Share Image
When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as… — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
“Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last,… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from… — George Stapledon Copy Share Image
So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image