When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account. — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie. — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
