Quotes About Pattern

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

My work is always very geometric.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

I never met a stripe I didn't like.

I am a little obsessed with stripes.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.

It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.'

Robots are good at things that are structured.

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

was not a Navajo concept, this idea of adjusting nature to human needs. The Navajo adjusted himself to remain in harmony with the universe. When nature withheld the rain, the Navajo sought the pattern of this phenomenon—as he sought the pattern of all things-to find its beauty and live in harmony with it.

There would have been no need for Fidel to start a revolution in the first place. It's a dismal pattern that has been repeated over and over again in the decades since Batista fled, with the United States propping up a string of appalling dictators in Iran, Vietnam, Chile, and Panama, to name a few. The tragedy is that it has almost always led to disastrous results. By betraying its own principles, the United States has also managed to defeat its most basic strategic goals.

More than five and a half hours of sleep during the day will throw the three-hour routine off kilter and cause a baby to stay up all night.

Sights, smells, temperature changes—all sorts of stuff. We notice it without consciously thinking about it. He says we may not be paying attention, but our brains are recording and processing it all the same, and these… these observations, or whatever you want to call them, make up a pattern. So if you're good with patterns, the way Mr. Benedict says I am, you can sometimes predict things.

when mediocrity follows talent, and the pattern remains the same, decay is inevitable.

schools of fishes, crossing and recrossing, all

Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern.

What Mendeleyev was looking for amongst the elements appeared to be something very similar: a pattern listing the elements