Patterns Quotes

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water,Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light,Bosomin...

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanen...

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent t...

If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of ...

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine pro...

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following...

It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps ther...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering o...

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and worki...

I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf...

I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing...

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and des...

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside o...

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we c...

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists...

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...