Patterns Quotes - Page 4

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will force, it can manifest according to the mental blueprint you have created.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

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 depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

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.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.