Quotes About Pattern

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Toda nuestra vida en cuanto a su forma definida , no es más que un conjunto de hábitos

Why are habits so important? They are, in essence, behavioral autopilot. They allow lots of good behaviors to happen without the Rider taking charge. Remember that the Rider's self-control is exhaustible, so it's a huge plus if some positive things can happen "free" on autopilot.

The old pattern is powerful, so make sure to script the critical moves, because ambiguity is the enemy.

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. Humans

what action triggers do is create an "instant habit." Habits are behavioral autopilot, and that's exactly what action triggers are setting up.

By preloading a decision, they created an instant habit.

Focus on building habits. When you create habits, you get the new behavior "for free" (think of the stand-up meetings), and you're less likely to backslide.

schemas enable profound simplicity

When change works, it tends to follow a pattern. The people who change have clear direction, ample motivation, and a supportive environment.

When change happens, it tends to follow a pattern. We've got to stop ignoring that pattern and start embracing it.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Even then Christa left. Later she often repeated this procedure - of going away - and there's a pattern to be read here, even on first sight: you leave what you know too well, leave what has ceased to be a challenge. Keep your curiosity about other ranges of experience, and ultimately about yourself in any new experience. Prefer the movement to the goal. - Such a nature has obvious drawbacks for its surroundings and itself.

the law is this: That everything entering subjective consciousness will impress itself there and become a pattern for the creative energies of the mind. These energies will proceed to create thoughts and conditions just like the impression formed, which will carry their own conditions to every part of the human system.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

See the interlaced strands?' She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. 'These trace a never-ending path, leading away from home and circling back. When you wear this, you'll never be far from the place you started.

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

Good questions can initiate a surprising wend toward an answer that is neither right nor wrong, but that can be judged as strong or weak or honest or dishonest on the basis of the steps that brought the answerer there. It is a built thing. Sometimes what it builds is bullshit, but the bullshit can be so well-constructed that it has integrity, a pattern integrity. This can be worth admiring.

There's a pattern in every crime - something that give us (the police) an edge on the criminal's weakness, and we know he has a weakness or he wouldn't be a criminal.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An example is the chaotic disposition of sand grains at the beach, or of flecks of light on a television screen when the station closes down. In the chaotic distribution, no location or direction is preferred. Only when there is structure appearing in a chaotic distribution does orientation become possible, as the overall symmetry is broken.