Quotes About Pattern

The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.

Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

I suppose this feeling of uniqueness is part of the pattern.

There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.

See, the human mind is kind of like... a pi

Cap notices the first red and gold leaves of the fall eddying on the surface of the lake. Do they make a pattern? Perhaps. She could impose form: a ragged spiral; a cluster disrupted by ducks; a single reed caught between reeds. She could impose symbolic meaning. She believes this may be life's primary requirement: to impose a tolerable meaning on randomness.

Everything in our world is a waveform (sometimes called pattern, or sine wave signature) or can even be seen as sound. All things — your bodies, planets, absolutely everything — are waveforms. If you choose this particular way of looking at Reality and superimpose that view over the reality of the harmonics of music (an aspect of sound), we can begin to talk about different dimensions.

The opposite of passion is not virtue but routine. - Daphne with her Thighs in Bark

But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds

Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives

organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe

The geometry! I think I can see it! Each quarter section is homeomorphic to a triangle!

Las dependencias, supongo, son vicios difíciles de quebrar.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

If the men are supposed to be the heads of the family, they must also be the heads of the community. The community must be structured in a way that supports the pattern of the family, and the family must be structured in a way that supports the pattern of the community.