Pattern Quotes

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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation. — Bertrand de Jouvenel
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US… — Louise Hay
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that… — Edmund Leach
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? — Walter Lippmann
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff… — C. V. Wedgwood
History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. — F. M. Powicke
He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from… — Neil Strauss
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in… — Gordon B. Hinckley
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through… — Martha Graham
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter… — Patrick Ness
Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect… — Spencer W. Kimball
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the… — Michel de Montaigne
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern. — Marc Bolan
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith
I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving… — Thomas S. Monson
Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or… — Bill Drayton
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates… — Charles Ferguson

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