Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet.… — Jimmy Cannon
I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to… — Jan C. Ting
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to… — John Eliot
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God… — J I Packer
Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. — Sun Tzu
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. — Alice Childress
A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the… — Esther Hicks
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties.… — Hugh Prather
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. — P.J. O'Rourke
The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until… — Richard P. Feynman
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents… — Margaret Sanger
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,… — Rajneesh
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best… — Learned Hand
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable… — Erich Fromm

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