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Quotes About Pattern

Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.
~ Linda Lael Miller
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
Habit is the great flywheel of society.
~ William James
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am just like you, Destined to play my part.And leave, In the nature of my departure at least, Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.
~ Scott Hastie
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
~ Darrell Royal
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
~ Albert Einstein
Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.
~ Aldous Huxley
He thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
~ Aldous Huxley
The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains.
~ Aldous Huxley
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
~ Aldous Huxley
Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Habit to us is given from above: it is a substitute for happiness.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Order is the key to all problems.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.
~ Donald O. Clifton
So, what is a system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.
~ Donella H. Meadows
Model utility depends not on whether its driving scenarios are realistic (since no one can know that for sure), but on whether it responds with a realistic pattern of behavior.
~ Donella H. Meadows
A system is a set of things-people, cells, molecules, or whatever-interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.
~ Donella H. Meadows
In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.
~ Donella H. Meadows
System: A set of elements or parts that is coherently organized and interconnected in a pattern or structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviors, often classified as its "function" or "purpose.
~ Donella H. Meadows
It is the consistent behavior pattern over a long period of time that is the first hint of the existence of a feedback loop.
~ Donella H. Meadows
A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system's response to these forces is characteristic of itself, and that response is seldom simple in the real world.
~ Donella H. Meadows