Quotes About Pattern

I realized I was mirroring her, and intentionally broke the pattern by setting the mug down.

The ballads were a true history of Faerie and a false one. They were true because all stories are true, and false because all stories have echoes and interplay and Faerie was the result of the tension between those two. The pattern of a tapestry was not the substance of the strands.

Your brain is optimized for pattern-sensing," Gavin commented. "And chatter.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.

In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.

When all of these were considered together, a pattern emerged: mass extinctions seemed to take place at regular intervals of roughly twenty-six million years.

It was about three feet wide and stippled

My family." "No! You never mentioned that." She had noticed an endearing pattern: whenever Paul felt guilty or in need of affection, he'd tell a painful story about his past.

Consistently stick to your plan, and over the next few months you will see your baby's sleep stabilize into a very comfortable pattern that is less and less affected by daily disruptions.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

It was the math that mattered. And when the math yields a pattern of harmonious proportion, whether it's the golden section of the Greeks or the Sierpinski gasket and Mandelbrot set of modern fractal geometry, the Platonist knows, as Archimedes did many centuries before, that he is standing at the threshold of the truth.

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." - Liebniz

the battle for structure.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Bad luck always comes in threes.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

When you are designing a new habit, you are really designing for consistency. And for that result, you'll find that simplicity is the key. Or as I like to teach my students: Simplicity changes behavior.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

I'm a creature of habit.