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
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
As I've matured, I've developed more confidence in pattern mixing and in having a slimmer fit and in taking some risks, and… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. — Ernst Engel 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
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the… — Arthur Fry Copy Share Image
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything. — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image