Quotes About Patterns

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

Sometimes, she said, it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

One way to figure out a great theory is to look at what's working in the real world and figure out what the various successes have in common. With

It's called Zipf's law, and it applies to résumés and college application rates and best-selling records and everything in between. Winners win big because the marketplace loves a winner.

Normalization creates culture, and culture drives our choices, which leads to more normalization.

When you market to someone who doesn't have a pattern yet, you don't have to persuade them that their old choices were mistakes.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another. Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It's what I do.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

next book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.10 Like Satir and Bateson, Erickson found the work impressive.

The only justification for the application of NLP patterns is the creation of choice and precisely in the context in which choice presently does not exist.

The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.

Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system's ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a useful analogy: a dozen rules determine

The story for Hispanics and Asians is complicated by the fact that many are immigrants or the children of immigrants, meaning that we have to take into account how the process of adaptation and assimilation (or possible lack thereof) affects their patterns of socioeconomic achievement and health over time and across generations.