Quotes About Pattern

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Everything that's organized is racing toward being disorganized. It's nature's highest law.

Even his funeral, which he anticipates as his last great social affair, is in strict conformance with the pattern.

Habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly.

The speech set a pattern that he would follow throughout the war, offering a sober appraisal of facts, tempered with reason for optimism. "It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour," he said. "It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

I can see the messy, haphazard collection of instructions that make up a human life. While some would argue that the fact that this almost random pattern is proof of a miracle, I'd point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle—and if we're all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn't.

Roll. Tap. Tap. Tap

We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern:

It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect. You

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.3

Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

That's my style - to mix a lot of print and pattern and put it all together.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

I don't know why, but I can't get myself to like animal prints.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Polka dots are fabulous.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.