Patterns Quotes

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I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that… — David Pilbeam
The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is… — Swami Yogananda
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress… — Arianna Huffington
The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your… — Joseph Alsop
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of… — Carl Jung
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal… — Piero Ferrucci
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love… — Germaine Greer
The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns... Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole. — Barbara Brennan
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something called your 'pattern… — Edward Snowden
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular… — Fritjof Capra
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see… — Elise M. Boulding
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures… — Keith Devlin
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to… — Edward Weston

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