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Quotes About Patterns

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
~ Mason Cooley
A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.
~ Michael J. Silverstein
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
~ Mae West
La primera parte, aumentada en 7, la segunda disminuida en 7, la tercera multiplicada por 7 y la cuarta divida por 7 darán el mismo resultado; vean: 7 + 7 = 14 21 – 7 = 14 2 x 7 = 14 98 : 7 = 14
~ Unknown
Colocar diez soldados en cinco filas de modo que cada fila tenga cuatro soldados. El problema, de apariencia complicada, tiene una solución muy sencilla indicada en la figura en la que aparecen cinco filas de cuatro soldados cada una.
~ Unknown
La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.
~ Unknown
That's the human brain," Attavio VI said. "It creates patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie." "And primed to believe the lie.
~ John Scalzi
That's the human brain," Attavio VI said. "It creates patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie.
~ John Scalzi
patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie." "And primed to believe the lie.
~ John Scalzi
There's a passage in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" that does a pretty good job describing California's rainfall patterns: The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ...
~ John Steinbeck
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
~ Hortense Calisher
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
You know what. Life is too short, don't complain, don't hate, and don't argue. Just breathe. No one is stifling you except yourself, and if you think otherwise: Who do you think controls your actions, your thoughts, and your patterns? You do! Stop being the victim and start being the solution.
~ Unknown
Car ce que les gens ont fait, ils le recommencent indéfiniment. Et qu'on aille voir chaque année un ami qui les premières fois n'a pu venir à votre rendez-vous, ou s'est enrhumé, on le retrouvera avec un autre rhume qu'il aura pris, on le manquera à un autre rendez-vous où il ne sera pas venu, pour une même raison permanente à la place de laquelle il croit voir des raisons variées, tirées des circonstances.
~ Marcel Proust
The patterns of tiles created by the Moors are of secondary interest: it is the underlying group of symmetries which preserve aspects of the patterns that defines the geometry of the [Alhambra's] murals.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required
~ Marcus Sakey
They were innocent people. They could just do things you couldn't imagine. I can see code, do you get it? Algorithms that confound straights are just patterns to me. They come in my dreams. I dream the most beautiful programs never written.
~ Marcus Sakey
Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.
~ Marcus Sakey
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
~ Margaret Mead
we found that we could subdivide rapprochement into three periods; (1) beginning rapprochement; (2) the rapprochement crisis; and (3) individual solutions of this crisis, resulting in patternings and personality characteristics with which the child enters into the fourth subphase of separation-individuation, the consolidation of individuation.
~ Unknown
Performance II Two Women Dreaming Landmarks Angatja, July, 1993 Each morning we open our eyes to an ever changing sky through patterns of feathery mulga leaves from an envelope of green canvas, a fire of mulga at our feet, and curved mulga branches at our head. The camp is a clump of mulga trees beside a little hill, a huge pile of reddish brown rocks, puli.
~ Unknown