Quotes About Patterns

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

It's not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

What energy am I holding on to right now in my belief systems, behavior patterns, feelings, and relationships that is not serving my highest good?

Design research both inspires imagination and informs intuition through a variety of methods with related intents: to expose patterns underlying the rich reality of people's behaviors and experiences, to explore reactions to probes and prototypes, and to shed light on the unknown through iterative hypothesis and experiment.

You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

When they are beyond the reach of the law, Americans revert to the patterns of segregation the law forbids. Why is this?

This is the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it's such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places. They pop up from strange corners. Codebreakers tend to be oddballs, outsiders. The most important trait is not pure math skill but a deeper ability to pay attention.

Policies are only meant for situations that come up over and over again.

Finally, we should consider the contribution system. Are we able to see our own contribution to the problem? Are we able to describe the other person's contribution without blaming? Are we aware of the ways that each of our contributions forms a reinforcing pattern that magnifies the problem? In what way does this shift how we feel?

you were to change the wavelength of your consciousness and in so doing change all your body patterns to a wavelength different from this universe, you would literally disappear out of this world and reappear in the one to which you were tuned.