Quotes About Patterns

In Ruby's mind, everything […] fell under the rule of the heavens. […] They were, as Ada saw them an expression of stewardship, a means of taking care, a discipline. They provide a ritual of concern for the patterns and tendencies of the material world where it might be seen to intersect with some other world.

presented in an honest and straightforward manner. A little mathematical sophistication—and a little practice—allows you to recognize errors of randumbness, causuistry, and regression to the moon; once you get used to spotting phony patterns and false connections, you'll begin to see them everywhere.

Life gets a little trickier when we are doing our regression analysis (or other forms of statistical inference) with a small sample of data.

people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

But many of us love the fact that Ricardo was able, nearly two hundred years ago, to produce insights that illuminate our understanding today. It's easy to see the difference between nineteenth-century farming and twenty-first-century frothing, but not so easy to see the similarity before it is pointed out to us. Economics is partly about modelling, about articulating basic principles and patterns that operate behind seemingly complex subjects like the rent on farms or coffee bars.

There are patterns in imperial communications, as there are in everything else. Once the pattern is known, knowledge is easier to obtain.

Between the stimulation received from the environment and our response, certain processes had to occur inside the brain, and cognitive researchers revealed the human mind to be a great interpreting machine that made patterns and created sense of the world outside, forming maps of reality.

How strange, Popov thought. If the Irish didn't like the English, then why did they emulate their driving patterns?

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Love holds on to it's bad habits. - My Heart Is Not A Poodle

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things

The Holy Spirit rebuilds our "walls of salvation" by correcting our old, broken patterns of thinking and establishing new strongholds of truth that bring health and strength to every dimension of our beings.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

Bertrand Russell describes the same idea thus: "the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind; it is simply arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations: some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical.

I was distracted all the way home, thinking that you always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make.

You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make

Fui distraída todo el camino, pensando en que siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar.

siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

I drank when I was happy and I drank when I was anxious and I drank when I was bored and I drank when I was depressed, which was often.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?

Even those in the "functional adult" camp with relatively mild addictive tendencies often find that despite their best efforts and intentions, dark patterns repeat in their lives.