Quotes About Pattern

It is amazing how everything can fall into a routine

Nuestro patrón de vida pasada no es sostenible. El tiempo planetario nos está moviendo hacia la siguiente fase de evolución, o devolución e incluso extinción.

It's right funny, when yer think about it. First Polly died, then me mam, and now Mrs Fairley. All in just a few months of each other.' Cook returned Emma's concentrated stare. 'It's said, in these parts, that everything goes in threes.

There they were, fanned out behind him like two points at the base of a moving scalene triangle.

And of the Thule, who carried large stones into their camps and set them up in a pattern for a jumping game, like hopscotch.

we notice a discrepancy in sequences, that would be strange.

God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted—was able—only to unshape.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

Covey found a similar pattern in personal effectiveness: first build upon a strong core of principles that are not open for continuous change; at the same time, be relentless in the quest for improvement and continuous self-renewal.

Sauer's checkered stock

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.

T]he world as a Whole has no inclination or leaning … The falling of a leaf from a tree, the flow of a stream, the sound of movement and wind – all these are natural, effortless, wondrous – deeply alive. … Unwilled action over time will produce a pattern on the grass. Willed action will not.

Now let's look at the commitmentphobic's job pattern. Basically, he can't bear to feel trapped there either.

A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities—capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.

Like any other thought, a hunch is simply a network of cells firing inside your brain in an organized pattern. But for that hunch to blossom into something more substantial, it has to connect with other ideas. The hunch requires an environment where surprising new connections can be forged: the neurons and synapses of the brain itself, and the larger cultural environment that the brain occupies.

The same pattern appears again and again throughout the evolution of life. Indeed, one way to think about the path of evolution is as a continual exploration of the adjacent possible.

As William James pointed out, humans are habit machines.

Or perhaps the truth was that there is no Fate, no pattern, nothing at all except a tired man looking back and forgetting everything but this and that detail which the very act of memory composes into a fate. Eschenburg, remembering his childhood, wondered whether Fate was merely a form of forgetfulness.

The information contained in a pattern depends on how coarsely or finely grained our view of the world is.

Third, children do pick up the pattern.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Maybe you're even just a collection of bad habits.