Quotes About Pattern

Habit is a great deadener.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

There's a pattern. Never, never doubt that there's a pattern. There's a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.

El patrón respiratorio presenta períodos de inspiraciones muy breves, de tipo apneico (respiración casi detenida), seguidos de exhalaciones pasivas incompletas y a veces por una fase espiratoria de tipo "suspiro".

Memory," Dr. McKee says, watching his computer screen, "is really just a series of electrical pulses generated by neurons. If we put an electrode there and monitor it, we're able to map out the memory. Tracking the electrical signals in your brain creates a pattern, and each pattern represents a specific experience. Look around this room, Tatum," he says.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces

Bad things always happen in three.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

thoughts which go out from one's mind, also imbed themselves deeply in one's subconscious mind, where they serve as a magnet, pattern, or blueprint by which the subconscious mind is influenced while translating them into their physical equivalent.

It has been well said that all men are 'the creatures of habit

the cycles of risk taking in the economy as following a pattern: stability and absence of crises encourage risk taking, complacency, and lowered awareness of the possibility of problems. Then

The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And