Quotes About Patterns

Literacy alters patterns of life that have gone undisturbed for generations.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for earth. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I acknowledge I have a pattern of falling for men who are emotionally unavailable, physically unavailable in terms of distance, or categorically unavailable with respect to time or where they are in life.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read, because he operates in certain ways. And he is the king of distraction.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.