Quotes About Patterns

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting.

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

Usually what people do in a relationship crisis is more of the same thing they have been doing, only more intensely and more anxiously.

The five familiar and well-defined relationship patterns, as described by Bowen, are: Conflict Distance Cutoff Dysfunctional spouse (also called over/underfunctioning reciprocity) Dysfunctional child (also called triangling)

The most common and important triangle that people find when they begin to examine their patterns is the one that was formed between themselves and their two parents or caregivers at birth.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Il volto quasi familiare diventa un fenomeno comune in una società affollata ed in un continuo movimento. Penso talvolta che sia proprio ciò che in ultima analisi rimane di noi: schemi di lineamenti, alcuni un po' più persistenti degli altri, impressi sullo scorrere dei volti. (Il Boia torna a casa)

shapes thinking, creating mental habits, which can

Plus paranoid. You can bet they did the exact same things on eighteen and twenty. Which would make their buffer zones virtually impregnable.

Perhaps he would glance down and see that he was doing 76 miles an hour, and he would see that 76 squared was 5,776, which ended in 76, where it started, which made 76 an automorphic number, one of only two below 100, the other being 25, whose square was 625, whose square was 390,625, which

Thus even random patterns can be interpreted as compelling evidence if they relate to our preconceived notions.

Empowering emotions help you discover the lessons of every situation and move toward your goals. Disempowering interpretations tie you to negativity and get in the way of your goals. Reappraisal involves recognizing the negative pattern developing in your thoughts and changing it to one that is more desirable, but in a manner that is still based in reality.

that in a random series of 101,000,007 zeroes and ones, you should expect at least 10 nonoverlapping subsequences of 1 million consecutive zeros.11

wherever they looked, the chaos of life seemed to produce quantifiable and predictable patterns.

Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.