Patterns Quotes - Page 16

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.