Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event.… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
