273 Quotes About Patterns

Many people imagine that any higher human development, if it exists at all, must follow a pattern whose form (or at least whose beginning) is instantly perceptible to them as such.In making this assumption these people expose themselves to control by any systems which can take advantage of this expectation. And systems do take advantage of this,

Great leaders know that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

Being bad is not good, but too sad. And being good is not at all bad. This simple equation, It's the whole elation: Keen eye for batik patterns and plaid!

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

There's truth in patterns but it's the kind of truth that's hard to accept - the truth we don't always see because we're not always looking.

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

Perhaps the compulsion to lay a woman’s life before me and slowly explore each layer started in the dissection room; so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood.