Quotes About Pattern

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

In other words, your habits are not you. They are you on autopilot.

The mind demands pattern and form, which build up slowly and require repeated passes, with each pass going deeper and probing further.

Habit is a great deadener.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

It's only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent.

History is cyclic, not repetitive.

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual point to providing a nurturing form or substance for the God-hungry imagination, one that helps young people inhabit a narratable world.

liturgy is not a particular style of worship or some outmoded preference on the part of old people; it's a timeless pattern based on the fourfold movement—one that was originally created by first-rate storytellers who knew what they were about.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

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

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

Music is geometry in time.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.