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Quotes About Pattern

Everything repeats itself. There ain't but so many notes on the scale, there ain't but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain't but so many beats. So things come back to you a different way. Don't matter what they call it.
~ Philip Bailey
The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
~ Roger Penrose
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
~ Bill Drayton
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.
~ Marina Abramovic
The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
~ Dan Phillips
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
~ Dan Phillips
No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.
~ Ro Khanna
My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.
~ Hope Jahren
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
~ Shoshana Zuboff
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
~ Jeff Bezos
It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The same stones shaken, no longer made the same design.
~ Betsy Byars
One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the "repetition compulsion"—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.
~ Beverly Engel
Yaz? yazmak, konu?mak, etmek eylemek, bizleri,bu (yad?rgay?p durmaktan öteye geçemedi?imiz)düzen yoklu?una al??t?rmayacakt?r.
~ Bilge Karasu
sequential numbers
~ Bill O'Reilly
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
~ Rosa Parks
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
~ Havelock Ellis
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
~ Billy Collins
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
~ Margaret Mahy
Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our lives.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control.
~ Gretchen Rubin
The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.
~ Gretchen Rubin
the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making
~ Gretchen Rubin