Quotes About Patterns

Life is all about cycles.

There are always cycles in football.

Wrestling is quite cyclical in its nature.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

Politics is cyclical.

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

We seem to have this tendency to want to make things simple with formulas-and yet our formulas consistently make them more complex.

The government was not following preexisting racial patterns; it was imposing segregation where it hadn't previously taken root.

The pendulum reads energy patterns. It is able to extract information from deep inside our subconscious minds.

In many ways, humans aren't much different from pets. People often behave the way they have been trained to behave. For example, if a person gives his dog a treat when he pisses on the carpet, the dog will keep pissing on the carpet. The same is true for humans. If the Nice Guy reinforces his partner's undesirable behaviors, she will keep behaving in undesirable ways.

EMIC REALITY: the unified field made up of thoughts, feelings and apparent sense impressions that organizes our inchoate experience into meaningful patterns; the paradigm or model that people create by talking to each other, or by communicating in any symbolism; the culture of a time and place; the semantic environment. Every emic reality has its own structure, which imposes structure upon raw experience.

Information, mathematician Norbert Wiener once said, consists of signals that you do not expect. Remember?

I'm afraid, Gringo, I must agree with our distinguished folklorist and foremost witness to the ontological revelations of the patterns of history,' intercedes (with a respectful nod to Schultz) Professor Costen Migod McCamish, Doctor of Nostology and Research Specialist in the Etiology of Homo Ludens, 'and have come to the conclusion that God exists and he is a nut.

I don't get the new shoe business." "You walk around, step on stuff, the heel gets nicked, the sole picks up dings and cuts. A pattern develops, right? It's called a Schallamach pattern. And since no two people walk exactly alike, the Schallamach on your shoe is unique to you.

According to Machiavelli, human beings naturally tend to think in terms of patterns. They like to see events conforming to their expectations by fitting into a pattern or scheme, for schemes, whatever their actual content, comfort us by suggesting that the chaos of life is predictable.