Quotes About Pattern

The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart. ...Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

The stars in the dark vault of sky were endless. Soft green and blue light with tinges of peach at the edges waved across it in silent curtains. The curtains of gods. "I think she's watching us from up there." Tears leaked silently down her face. And in that instant she was certain that from up there, everything must look like it had a plan. A reason. A pattern. She just couldn't see it from down here.

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over.

Of course, I thought. Unavailable. Just Charlotte's type. Charlotte, in fact, had used that same expresion every time she mentioned the Dude. He's so my typo. What most people mean by type is a sense of attraction- a type of physical appearance or a type personality turns them on, But what underlies a person's type, in fact, is a sense o familiarity.

As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After

patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert

It's a study in deliberate asymmetry.

He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Realized today that my life is a vicious cycle of being drunk and/or hungover.

Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.

human beings were stupid, they circled round and around and finally came back to where they started, as if pulled back by the steady tug of an inescapable cord. But

Don't let your habit follow you to bed, or it will follow you to the grave.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

Living was simple: it was no more than a few habitual actions strung on to a routine.

Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; therefore, what happened once can happen always.

Universal laws always follow a pattern. Everything that moves or grows has a cycle and trend.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.

the Byzantine style, which so few care for to-day, but which moves me because these tall, emaciated angels and saints seem to have less relation to the world about us than to an abstract pattern of flowing lines that suggest an imagination absorbed in the contemplation of Eternity.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.