Quotes About Pattern

To a truly remarkable extent, we're more likely to do something if it's convenient, and less likely if it's not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.

Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.

This interest in pattern and surprise gives us our love of both familiarity and novelty. When we experience something familiar—a song, a favorite snack, an episode of The Office—our brains process it more easily, which may make us like it more. Nevertheless, to enjoy ourselves, we usually try something new. Novelty is more work but also more interesting, which is why new forms of music, art, and fashion catch our attention.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habit is a good servant but a bad master.

A "routine" is a string of habits, and a "ritual" is a habit charged with transcendent meaning.

Consistency, repetition, no decision—this was the way to develop the ease of a true habit.

In other words, habits eliminate the need for self-control.

Same person, same activity, different habit.

Studies suggest that we repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily. So if we change our habits, we change our lives.

In ordinary terms, a "habit" is generally defined as a behavior that's recurrent, is cued by a specific context, often happens without much awareness or conscious intent, and is acquired through frequent repetition.

I concluded that the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making.

habits eliminate the need for self-control.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while

What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while.

the myths were of a well-known pattern common to most  of mankind and determined by early phases of imaginative experience which always produced the same type of delusion.

nor could they be silenced by my assurance that all the myths were of a well-known pattern common to most of mankind and determined by early phases of imaginative experience which always produced the same type of delusion.

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.