Patterns Quotes

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that… — Sai Baba
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before… — Erykah Badu
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes… — Henry Ward Beecher
Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and… — Ezra Taft Benson
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. — Alfred Adler
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,… — Isaiah Berlin
To understand is to perceive patterns. — Isaiah Berlin
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that… — Annie Besant
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the… — Constantin Brancusi
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and… — Jerry Brown
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived… — James Buchan
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating… — Christopher Alexander
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as… — Christopher Alexander
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. — Christopher Alexander
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:… — Christopher Alexander
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. — Al Capp
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is… — Margaret Chan

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