Quotes About Patterns

Medea smiled to herself and felt reassured. Despite being so much more crowded and having so much more hustle and bustle, the world still functioned in its old way, the way she understood, with small miracles happening, people coming together and parting, and all of it forming a wonderful pattern.

Suddenly he understood this as a condition of things – if you could see the patterns the waves made, or remember the shapes of a million small white clouds, there it would be, a boiling, inexplicable, vertiginous similarity in all the processes of the world, roaring silently away from you in ever-shifting repetitions, always the same, never the same thing twice.

Y?l?n baÅŸlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun sonlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun kar??s?nda baÅŸlang?çta sahip olduÄŸu küçük avantaj devam ediyor. Bu da çocuklar? y?llarca uzay?p giden baÅŸar? ve baÅŸar?s?zl?k, teÅŸvik etme ve cesaret k?rma modelleri içine hapsediyor.

Whatever mechanism passes on speech patterns probably passes on behavioral and emotional patterns as well.

Successful people follow successful patterns.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns. Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole. I try not to think about it too much.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

I never saw as clearly as with Artaud what the meaning of poetry is: it is an abstraction, to match allegorical patterns.

can thinking and feeling emerge from patterns of activity in different sorts of substrate – organic, electronic, or otherwise?

In short, can thinking and feeling emerge from patterns of activity in different sorts of substrate – organic, electronic, or otherwise?

But it can be liberating to see how thoughts pull the levers of emotion—and how negative emotions in turn set the stage for patterns of thinking that keep them active and coloring one's mind.

People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.

few minutes elapsed. The new logs made popping sounds as they caught. She watched the flickering patterns

Quilts are like lives. They're made up of a lot of little pieces," Nit said.

Sometimes, even when you know someone is a hundred different kinds of wrong for you, you get sucked into old patterns and behaviors.

History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

El sentido común. (Una buena manera de equivocarse con total confianza.) 6. La detección de patrones. (Los patrones, las coincidencias y los prejuicios personales se parecen.)

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time. I read the news to broaden my exposure to new topics and patterns that make my brain more efficient in general and to enjoy myself, because learning interesting things increases my energy and makes me feel optimistic. Don't think of the news as information. Think of it as a source of energy.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

if we wish to understand why, as humans, we often act in certain predictable ways (and particularly if there is a desire or need to change these behavioral responses), we can remember our animal heritage and look for the possible releasers that seem to stimulate our fixed-action patterns.