Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible… — George Johnson
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit… — J. B. Priestley
Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should… — Morihei Ueshiba
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all… — Kate Mosse
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. — James Salter
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.… — Raphael Lemkin
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our… — Pema Chodron
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I… — Martha Stewart
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. — Anne Stevenson
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be. — Fritjof Capra
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. — William James
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which… — Alan Watts
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and… — Richard Bach
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They… — Bill Drayton
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there… — Thomas Berry
Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills. — Susan Polgar

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