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Patterns repeat themselves in history -- Rick Riordan
To understand is to perceive patterns. -- Isaiah Berlin
Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents. -- Luke Rhinehart
Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software -- Erich Gamma
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow. -- Jimmy Savile
Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle. -- Dean Koontz
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. -- Edward de Bono
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. -- Bruce Lee
There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. -- Stephen Covey
Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them. -- Victoria Finlay
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. -- Richard P. Feynman
Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance. -- Gabrielle Roth
Art is pattern informed by sensibility. -- Herbert Read
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. -- Tuli Kupferberg
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. -- Bruce Lee
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience... -- Alfred North Whitehead
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. -- Al Capp
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. -- Leo Ornstein
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. -- Little Richard
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. -- Anais Nin
I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that. -- Trisha Goddard
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. -- Manuel Puig
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. -- Doris Lessing
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
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. -- Havelock Ellis
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
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
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. -- Isaiah Berlin
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
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
We make patterns, we share moments. -- Jenny Downham
Nature should be idealised not copied. -- Owen Jones Classics
...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not... -- Dean Koontz
The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe. -- John Verndon
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower -- Jacqueline Carey
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me. -- Elizabeth Moon
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. -- David Mitchell
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. -- Doug Dillon
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. -- Owen Jones Classics
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. -- Owen Jones Classics
Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. -- Patti Digh
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. -- Edward de Bono
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme -- Jacqueline Carey
I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..? -- Munia Khan
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. -- Bruce Lee
I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants -- Steven Magee
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. -- Michael Shermer
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. -- Julian Barnes
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. -- Brian Greene
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. -- Maynard James Keenan
If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love. -- Molly Friedenfeld
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. -- Tony Hillerman
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. -- Belinda Jeffrey
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes. -- Lisa Kleypas
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. -- Mariella Frostrup
I look for patterns that nobody else does. Like I noticed that my face looks like a tablecloth. Especially when I have food all over it. -- Jarod Kintz
Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe. -- Raph Koster
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior. -- John R.W. Stott
Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again. -- Kemi Sogunle
I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. -- Will Smith
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things. -- Adrian McKinty
Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important. -- Richard J. Borden
Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life. -- A.J. Darkholme
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning. -- John C. Maxwell
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts. -- Dalai Lama
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love. -- Orhan Pamuk
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. -- Jeff Goodell
Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we cannot, I think, survive without such belief. So each of us must pretend to find, or re-erect, a pattern. -- Julian Barnes
For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern. -- Jane Gardam
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38) -- Michael Shermer
I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. -- Kate Moss
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. -- David D. Burns
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. -- Robert Greene
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. -- Haile Selassie
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. -- J. Cole
There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above. -- Richard K. Morgan
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy. -- Mary Balogh
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. -- Danica McKellar
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
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases. -- Margaret Chan
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas. -- Louise L. Hay
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. -- Jim Woodring
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
It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in similar patterns. Many communities are made up of the same kind of people to the extent that we intentionally have to seek people whose stories are completely different from ours. -- Holly Sprink
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. -- Sharon Salzberg
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Science values static patterns. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Christ! What are patterns for? -- Amy Lowell
Successful people follow successful patterns. -- Sterling W Sill
Mathematics is the science of patterns. -- Lynn Steen
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom -- Dennis Prager
Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist. -- Thomas M. Disch
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. -- Eric Alterman
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. -- Ronald Graham
autism is more like retina patterns than measles -- Naoki Higashida
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. -- Anais Nin
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. -- Constantin Brancusi
Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns. -- Jake Busey
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns. -- Fritjof Capra
Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist. -- Debra Kaye
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. -- Lawrence Welk
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality. -- William Blake
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. -- Nate Berkus
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them. -- Yasmin Mogahed
I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren't there. -- Paul McGann
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. -- James Purefoy
I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning. -- Roddy Woomble
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. -- Marshall McLuhan
Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. -- James Purefoy
... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. -- Eckhart Tolle
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. -- Robert Wilson
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. -- G. H. Hardy
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. -- Jasmine Guinness
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... -- Lynn Steen

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