Pattern Quotes
823 quotes by 666 authors
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If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
— Bruce Lee
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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion…
— Mary Midgley
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We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
— Jeff Buckley
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Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern…
— Rajneesh
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Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think about a fact…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess…
— Geoffrey Elton
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History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in…
— Johan Huizinga
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Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe…
— J C Ryle
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The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a means - happiness…
— Rajneesh
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Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal…
— Thomas S. Monson
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However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates…
— Geoffrey W Bromiley
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Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of…
— Frederic Farrar
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All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions…
— G. B. Caird
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If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful,…
— M. Scott Peck
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Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false…
— Herbert Marcuse
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I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I…
— Roger Bannister
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