273 Quotes About Patterns

Brush your teeth. You do it the same way every morning, in fact. Eight to the left... eight to the right... There is a pattern in which you’ve unknowingly performed for years, a sort of ‘Toothbrush Song.

When you are paying attention to your thoughts, words, actions, feelings, food habits, reactions, decisions, secrets, patterns, and physique, you start tuning in consciously.

I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

I thought back to the counselling sessions, how we'd talked about thinking things through rationally, recognizing unhelpful patterns of behaviour and being brave enough to try doing things differently.

We're so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don't exist.

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us

ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It’s not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work.