Patterns Quotes
Patterns Quote of the day
You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.
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.
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
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.
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’
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?
It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver.
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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.
Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.
The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.