Patterns Quotes - Page 13

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.