Quotes About Pattern

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. See? So is 0.428571.

See? So is 0.428571.

addiction is a learned relationship between the timing and pattern of the exposure to substances or other potentially addictive experiences and a person's predispositions, cultural and physical environment, and social and emotional needs.

That's not because journalists know more about Japan. It's because they knew less: they had the ability to sort through what they knew and find a pattern.

What Gottman is saying is that a relationship between two people has a fist as well: a distinctive signature that arises naturally and automatically. That is why a marriage can be read and decoded so easily, because some key part of human activity — whether it is something as simple as pounding out a Morse code message or as complex as being married to someone — has an identifiable and stable pattern. Predicting divorce, like tracking Morse code operators, is pattern recognition.

success follows a predictable course.

This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere.

Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

our value/belief system acts as aconditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.

The value of routine

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

my life is not guided by reason; it is ruled, rather, by the inertia of habitual motion.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

She had forced the hourglass of pain to turn. They had pursued each other. They had tried to possess each other. They had been slaves of a pattern, and not of love.

The next day, Less hears Dr. Balk is down with a mysterious illness. In class, two young women quietly faint at their desks; as they collapse, their twin ponytails fly up like the tails of frightened deer. Less is beginning to see a pattern.

Just when we lose hope and believe life to be chaos, fate provides a pattern

It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance.

In neither case does the open-endedness of our inquiry suggest that there are no real facts to be known, or that some of the answers we have in hand are not really better than some others. Respect for diversity in our ethical views is, at best, an intellectual holding pattern until more of the facts are in.

we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.