Quotes by Patterns 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. Gordon B. Hinckley patternsuseschool Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes. Frederick Lenz patternswould-bedull Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns. Frederick Lenz karmapatternsmind When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in your life. Frederick Lenz karmapatternscauses If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. Frederick Lenz karmapatternschoices What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you? Gregory Bateson orchidspatternslobster 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. Gregory Bateson patternstwointeresting It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Gregory Bateson patternsprinciplesinsomnia Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct. Guido Molinari patternsdifferentbrain I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. Gustav Nossal mosaicspatternsyears ...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. Gregory Maguire patternsdifferentthinking 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. Hari Kunzru patternssimpleideas We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. Harriet Lerner patternspersonssteps Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. Hannah Arendt patternsmenmoving It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it. Harriet Lerner patternscouplefighting You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally. Henepola Gunaratana radical-changepatternsflow [M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior. Henepola Gunaratana healthy-habitspatternsmorality Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being. Henry Gee patternsbecomingprocess Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions Henry Mintzberg strategypatternsdecision The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation. Henry B. Eyring trust-in-godpatternscreation«678910111213141516»
