Patterns Quotes · Page 8

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

— Robert MacArthur

Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype and we fulfill that destiny.

— Forest Whitaker

We have proven a new pattern of abundance. We pray that we may also help to make a pattern for peace.

— Wheeler McMillen

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Dominique Wilkins

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

— Michael Shermer

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

— Jenny Downham

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

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles…

— Jamais Cascio

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's…

— Martha Graham

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

— Tom Johnson

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

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at…

— Neil Young

“problem-solving that relies on pattern-finding is of no use at all. If we look at the Challenger space shuttle catastrophe, there weren’t…

— Nat Greene

“A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a…

— Dan Brown

Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been…

— Robert Jordan

I think it helps to get a film made because people who put money in are nervous. They like to have something…

— Colin Firth

All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the…

— G. B. Caird

Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves.…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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

— Linda Olsson

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

— Anonymous

Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and…

— Jacques Ellul

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

The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when…

— David Eagleman

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

— Anthony Giddens

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's…

— Jonas Salk

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

— Archibald MacLeish

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

— Corrie Ten Boom

“If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.”

— Molly Friedenfeld

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

— Joyce Meyer

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

— E. M. Forster

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

— Dale Spender

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

— Lawrence S. Kubie

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

— Jane McGonigal