Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole. — Erich Gamma Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex… — William Ross Ashby Copy Share Image
Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video,… — Atom Egoyan 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
The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can… — Nina Menkes Copy Share Image
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
