Quotes About Pattern

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.

Unceasingly contemplate the generation of all things through change, and accustom thyself to the thought that the Nature of the Universe delights above all in changing the things that exist and making new ones of the same pattern.

the only truth is your own. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares.

Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

Your clothes are worn to the woof.

what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time.

A good relationship has a pattern like a dance ... The joy of such a pattern is not only the joy of creation or the joy of participation, it is also the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined.

But it is the marriage relationship in which the changing pattern is shown up most clearly because it is the deepest one and the most arduous to maintain; and because, somehow, we mistakenly feel that failure to maintain its exact original pattern is tragedy.

We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity—in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even.

Forget you need anyone to love you for what you are. That's impossible. I'm afraid. I'm afraid of what you will do now. The pattern's all too familiar.

Sunlight poured through an open doorway; I saw the flowered pattern of linoleum. I heard the laughter of toddlers, and I tasted milk.