Patterns Quotes

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...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the… — Robert Penn Warren
When you read a great book, you donâ€™t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape â€“ into different… — Julian Barnes
That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start… — James Patterson
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Peter used to say that an artistâ€™s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You… — Chuck Palahniuk
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. — Lloyd Alexander
Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just… — Lauren Oliver
One should never mistake pattern for meaning. — Iain Banks
Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. Thereâ€™s less identification with the self in the story… — Tara Brach
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. â€œAt… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear. — Cassandra Clare
If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body,… — Alan Watts
Shame usually follows a patternâ€”a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe… — Craig Groeschel
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken… — Pema Chodron
Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do. — Emma Forrest
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do… — Robert Jordan
We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed… — Juliet Marillier
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what… — Colm Toibin
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused… — Tana French

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