Patterns Quotes - Page 6

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.