Patterns Quotes

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The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about… — Jean Paul Gaultier
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the… — Clive Barker
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too… — Lewis Mumford
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as… — Thomas Merton
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one… — Gregory Bateson
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that… — Gregory Bateson
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. — Julian Barnes
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion. — Irving Stone
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of… — Rudolf Arnheim
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships.… — Margaret Mahy
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. — Leo Ornstein
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you… — Leo Ornstein
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic… — Carleton S. Coon
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little. — Nicole Richie
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living.… — Octavia Spencer

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