Pattern Quotes
823 quotes by 666 authors
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The…
— Fritjof Capra
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
— Michael Shermer
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Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!
— Denise Austin
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[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men…
— Clifford Geertz
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot…
— Richard G. Scott
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene,…
— Sadie Frost
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See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first…
— Rajneesh
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Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
— Philip Yancey
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As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but…
— Kevin W. Pearson
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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in…
— Charles R. Brown
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All life is a pattern... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.
— Belva Plain
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform…
— Alan Bullock
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This…
— Grete Waitz
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The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow…
— John Sparkman
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What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think…
— Philip Ball
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The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is…
— Swami Yogananda
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