Quotes About Pattern

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

If you don't integrate the technology in a way that's actually fun, the kids don't stay with the play pattern.

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress.

The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, 'I'll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.'

A song like 'When The Levee Breaks' has a very simple pattern, but it's hard to give it that feel that my dad gave it.

If you look at how humans tend to want to sleep, it seems to be either, you know, sort of a monophasic way or at least a biphasic way, where there's, perhaps, a long bout during the night and then maybe a siesta-like pattern during the day.

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.

I have to believe in my process and I know I follow a certain pattern to score runs. I have to believe that I will be getting runs if I have a certain mindset and I know I will.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Most players want to follow a pattern, especially when they're doing well, and when it goes wrong, they start looking for other patterns to do.

The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

His tie was a shade darker and a shade greyer than the suit, in a subtle pattern, and she smiled to herself, thinking of a book that she'd read not all that long ago.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Through myth, image and geometric proportion, Schwaller de Lubicz believed, the Egyptians were able to encapsulate in their writing and architecture the basic pattern structures of the natural universe.2

They walked in straight lines that the dogs scribbled all over.

Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuudella kuin vahvaa viiniä.

So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.

I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.