Quotes About Patterns

Unhealthy family patterns—such as willingly spending your life working hard without any compensation— can end up running your life, leaving behind powerful and long-lasting effects that you and those around you must eventually reconcile.

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

if they're willing to recognize their patterns and change them. When they're willing to see the truth and alter their beliefs, they can create new opportunities for themselves and their descendants. Until then, they may feel as if they're victims in a world they can't control, trying to make more money but barely getting by.

I wanted to trace the lost patterns that came before the world was broken and find the new ones we could make out of the shards.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people.

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behaviour seeping out from under whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

Snipers are people who undermine your efforts to break unhealthy relationship patterns.

the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we cannot, I think, survive without such belief. So each of us must pretend to find, or re-erect, a pattern.

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more,: the belief that any pattern exists

Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.

Patterns could be broken; paths could be changed. All it took was courage.

Such is our way of thinking - we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

Dash was a horrible person, but men tended to be horrible in predictable ways. A furious woman was capable of inflicting immense psychological damage, the kind that stuck around long after the wounds healed.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.

Men often marry their mothers.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.