Pattern Quotes
823 quotes by 666 authors
-
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in…
— Noah Levine
-
In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where…
— Tony Robbins
-
History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.
— Rudolf Hess
-
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants…
— Erich Fromm
-
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
— William James
-
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
— Marshall McLuhan
-
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
— George MacDonald
-
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer…
— Harriet Lerner
-
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace…
— Arthur Machen
-
Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which…
— Learned Hand
-
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no…
— Knut Hamsun
-
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are…
— Kevin DeYoung
-
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no…
— Morton Feldman
-
When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless…
— Charles Duhigg
-
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From…
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
-
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
— Roy Jenkins
-
Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two…
— Stanley Fischer
-
We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I…
— Henry Kuttner
-
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
— Rupert Sheldrake
-
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather…
— Fritjof Capra
Who Wrote These Pattern Quotes
666 authors contributed a total of 823 Pattern Quotes, led by these top contributors: