Patterns Quotes · Page 49

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

— Alice Childress

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but…

— Jonathan Haidt

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

When we are looking at ideas, we really are thinking of three things. Are you doing something that seems consistent with the…

— Scott D. Anthony

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

— M. S. Swaminathan

I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little…

— Richard Brancatisano

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be…

— Johannes Kepler

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home…

— George Carlin

“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information…

— Michael Zadoorian

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go…

— Steven Johnson

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by…

— Thomas Haden Church

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated…

— Wally Lamb

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of…

— Sara Zarr

We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be.…

— Jonathon Keats

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the…

— Raymond Chandler

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the…

— Anonymous

On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the…

— David Lack

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

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

— Anthony Giddens

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt…

— Jules Feiffer