Patterns Quotes

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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes… — A. R. Ammons
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore… — John Grierson
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down… — Dick Wolf
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no… — Peter Garrett
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal… — Carl Jung
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with… — G. H. Hardy
When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead,… — Chogyam Trungpa
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."… — Richard P. Feynman
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward de Bono
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation. — Bertrand de Jouvenel
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US… — Louise Hay
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that… — Edmund Leach
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal… — Philippe Starck
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? — Walter Lippmann
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students… — Paul Lockhart

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