Patterns Quotes - Page 10

We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.