Patterns Quotes

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Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should… — Morihei Ueshiba
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all… — Kate Mosse
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. — James Salter
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.… — Raphael Lemkin
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in… — Michael Merzenich
To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in… — John William Willis-Bund
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our… — Pema Chodron
No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after… — Matthieu Ricard
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I… — Martha Stewart
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns,… — Marilyn Ferguson
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. — Jules Feiffer
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. — Anne Stevenson
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his… — Robert Greene
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be. — Fritjof Capra
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns. — Dodie Smith
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. — William James
The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of… — Judy Grahn
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which… — Alan Watts

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