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Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle. -- Dean Koontz
In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern. -- Amy Lowell
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. -- William Gibson
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it. -- Robert Jordan
The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world. -- Robert G. Allen
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. -- Edwin Louis Cole
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. -- William Shakespeare
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -- Alfred North Whitehead
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. -- Henry Van Dyke
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. -- Julian Barnes
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. -- Junichiro Tanizaki
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. -- Anne Hathaway
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. -- Jason Silva
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. -- Iris Murdoch
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. -- Leonard Susskind
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people. -- Nas
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. -- Daniel Kahneman
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. -- Ernest Hemingway
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- J. B. Priestley
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- Joseph Priestley
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. -- Sai Baba
If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely. -- Twiggy
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. -- Christopher Alexander
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference. -- Dan Phillips
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. -- Constantin Brancusi
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. -- Robert Harris
But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension. -- Peter Watts
Art is pattern informed by sensibility. -- Herbert Read
What is the pattern of change? -- Janet Burroway
Find the pattern and anticipate them! -- Sam Brenner
The family is the pattern of heaven... -- Lawrence E. Corbridge
One should never mistake pattern for meaning. -- Iain Banks
Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern. -- Scott D. Anthony
Clouds float in the same pattern only once. -- Wayne Shorter
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. -- Jeff Bezos
Texture and pattern should function as a surprise. -- Robert Denning
Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation. -- Gia Combs-Ramirez
History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. -- F. M. Powicke
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility. -- Mark Elvin
There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern. -- Kurt Cobain
The mental pattern must always precede the material form. -- William Walker Atkinson
My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. -- Bill Drayton
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. -- Alice Childress
Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. -- Sun Tzu
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning. -- William Morris
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience... -- Alfred North Whitehead
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern. -- George Eliot
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions -- Henry Mintzberg
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. -- Marshall McLuhan
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ... -- Francis Marion
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. -- Al Capp
Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself. -- Alexander Suvorov
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When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. -- Marshall McLuhan
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. -- Joel Spolsky
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. -- Jay Maisel
Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy. -- Vishwanath S J
A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. -- Zora Neale Hurston
When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change. -- Roger Goodell
When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off. -- Gary Snyder
Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect. -- Taylor Swift
Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior. -- Hetty King
I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it. -- Richard Manuel
Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life. -- Charles Handy
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern. -- Wilhelm Reich
Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows. -- Donald Curtis
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. -- Jodie Foster
ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern. -- Chelsea Handler
Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. -- Masha Tupitsyn
It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming. -- Kenny Loggins
It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance. -- William Lane Craig
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. -- Napoleon Hill
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. -- Saul Bellow
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern. -- James Cameron
I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself. -- Jil Sander
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. -- Rumi
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. -- Michael Shermer
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision. -- Michael Gerber
My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody. -- Ray Lewis
The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. -- Chip Heath
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. -- E. M. Forster
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. -- Kate DiCamillo
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. -- Archibald MacLeish
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being. -- Rupert Sheldrake
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. -- Gregory Bateson
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. -- Lloyd Alexander
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. -- James Gleick
It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern. -- Shannon L. Alder
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern. -- Robert Prechter
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation. -- Henry B. Eyring
They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on. -- Paul Reiser
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The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. -- Chuck Missler
My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms. -- Ed Seykota
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. -- Marshall McLuhan
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. -- Michael Shermer
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. -- Robert Creeley
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. -- Skeet Ulrich
Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. -- Thomas S. Monson
I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. -- Ryan Murphy
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. -- Leo Ornstein
A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point. -- William Morris
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. -- Marcel Proust
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. -- Ian Stewart
Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.

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