Quotes About Pattern

We are what we do repeatedly.

Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.

What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If

Here I see one pattern common to all the winners. The one mechanical practice they all have in common is this: They acquire trust by giving trust.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting." This

we see a clear pattern: Satan's constant deception of human beings.

Haosul care ne inconjoara este cladit pe o ordine bine definita.

My friends,as you can see,the chaos of the world has an underlying order

It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information. For example, some people believe in what's called the 'twenty-three enigma.' That everything is related to the number twenty-three. It's a surprisingly involved belief.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

The term "pattern" is preferable to "model" because a pattern is a metaphor suggesting looseness and a tendency to become unraveled.

each in its order place

Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had taken a look at his prospects, tied a string around his neck with a brick to the other end, and jumped from a footbridge into two feet of water. Courage aside, he had that family's tenacity of purpose, and drowned, a break in the pattern quickly obliterated by the calcimine of silence.

Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way.

If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.

Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.

Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

The floor was covered with a faded, barely legible carpet, its traditional pattern of tanks and helicopters worn to colorless patterns of weft.