Patterns Quotes - Page 3

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.