Patterns Quotes
1313 quotes by 981 authors
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't…
— Ronald Graham
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It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical…
— John Negroponte
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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the…
— Ansel Adams
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Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend…
— Danny Elfman
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By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents;…
— Nancy Gibbs
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I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's…
— Gustav Nossal
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Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our…
— Arne Glimcher
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Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise…
— Arthur C. Brooks
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The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside…
— Bertrand Piccard
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Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
— Luke Rhinehart
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Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free…
— Luke Rhinehart
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By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner…
— Tarthang Tulku
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern…
— Paul Rudnick
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is…
— Anthony Storr
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I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it…
— Princess Diana
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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it…
— Sydney J. Harris
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