Quotes About Pattern

joined all the "woke" white men who set their privilege outside themselves—as in, I know better than to be ignorant or defensive about my status in our world. Never mind that that capacity to set himself outside the pattern of white male dominance is the privilege. There's no outrunning the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

We sometimes make spiderwebs of smoke and saliva, fragile though-packets Leave thinking to the one who gave intelligence Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improve

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.

The Tabernacle provides a pattern for us to feel deeply human, and by engaging with it, we turn our attention away from the culture that devalues us and instead fixes our attention on the God who dignifies each of us.

This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.

The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.

To predict the next note, you can't just look at the previous note or the previous five notes. The correct prediction may rely on notes that occurred a long time ago.

This night it would happen, had to happen. Just as it had happened before. Just as it would happen again, and again.

All part of the morning ritual: Astor never wanted anything Rita gave her to eat. And I found it oddly comforting that I knew what would happen next, as Rita and the kids followed the every-morning script and I waited for the cold pills to kick in and return to me the power of independent thought. Until then, no need to worry; I didn't have to do anything but follow the pattern.

now would be great exercise." But Kennie wasn't listening. She ping-ponged over to the sectional couch with the rust-colored, cabin-in-the-woods pattern, where she fell face down into the nappy cloth. She twitched and wriggled

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

There is a sense of rationality and order to human error.

Belief is like any other habit, the more you try to control and suppress it, the stronger it becomes.

goal is to build a model of the mind in pattern theoretic terms: Starting from simple, atomic, mental entities (the generators of pattern theory) we shall combine them into regular structures, thoughts, (configurations) later on to be controlled by probabilistic rules of connections.