Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you… — Eckhart Tolle
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves… — Nick Cave
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross — Ravi Zacharias
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one… — Khushwant Singh
When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change. — Roger Goodell
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things… — Gabor Szabo
The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't… — Valerie Estelle Frankel
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.… — Wally Lamb
A disruption of the circadian cycleâ€”the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeâ€”seems to be involved in many, if not most,… — William Styron
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family… — Murray Kempton
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene… — Richard Rohr
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider,… — Adrian McKinty
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private… — Freya Stark
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. — James Gleick

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