Quotes by Patterns What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing. Philip Ball stripespatternsthinking That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it. Philip Reeve patternsrealstories Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself. Phillips Brooks being-yourselfpatterns 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. Piero Ferrucci persistencepatternstasks The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution. Pope John Paul II environmentalpatternsprofound It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be. R. F. Delderfield curiouspatternslife There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. R. Buckminster Fuller immortalitypatternsprinciples If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true. Rachael Yamagata patternsleap-of-faithletting-go A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. R. Buckminster Fuller patternsindependentintegrity Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. R. Buckminster Fuller patternseventsfundamentals I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. Ralph Fiennes very-goodpatternshabit Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. Ralph Ellison chaospatternsgiving And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals. Ralph Ellison patternssightmind Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound. Ram Dass patternsmindprofound Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness. Rajneesh gestaltpatternsfreedom 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. Ray Kurzweil peerspatternssuccessful My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody. Ray Lewis patternsgamestrying It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation. Raymond Chandler this-generationpatternsgenerations Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world. Red Smith patternsroomsworld The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore. Reggie Watts settlingpatternsbehavior«1819202122232425262728»
