Patterns Quotes · Page 14

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

— Jimmy Page

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

— Emma Forrest

“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.”

— John Verndon

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

— Anne Stevenson

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

— Paul Reiser

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked…

— Ry Cooder

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

— John Holdren

I am pretty relentless about exercise. I love working out and doing cardiovascular workouts. I'm now doing the Whole Life Challenge to…

— Tim Matheson

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,…

— Mandy Aftel

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling…

— William Shakespeare

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns…

— Matthew Fox

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern…

— Nikki Sixx

If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in…

— Alfred Kinsey

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There…

— David X. Cohen

One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware…

— Thomas Lickona

If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one…

— Salman Rushdie

“This, in the therapy world, is what we call cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Translation? You get so tangled up in one…

— Ronen Dancziger

To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.…

— Ajahn Chah

Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build…

— Paul Feyerabend

“...they lived in a curious but not unhappy isolation, though her father was a popular schoolteacher. Partly they were cut off by…

— Alice Munro

Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved…

— Arthur Tress

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit…

— Anonymous

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

— Linda Olsson

The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but…

— John Locke

In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…

— Anthony Giddens

It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble…

— Chris Matthews

The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we…

— Pema Chodron

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

— Gregory Bateson

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

— Anonymous

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

— Robert MacArthur

“We all have our own patterns, I guess ... And whether we like it or not, they persist.”

— Jael McHenry

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

— Guido Molinari

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.

— Dominique Wilkins

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

— Michael Shermer