Patterns Quotes

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Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you… — Katherine Anne Porter
Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern. — Bill Hicks
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity. — Joan Halifax
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
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. — Tara Brach
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,… — Norbert Wiener
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community — Ruth Benedict
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. — Marshall McLuhan
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. — George MacDonald
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to… — M. Scott Peck
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

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