Patterns Quotes

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee

Truth, Outside, Incapable

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey

Character, Daily, Often

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Long, Short, Follows

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

Humanity, Together, Learned

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Small, Her

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono

Different, Creativity, Order

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
Temple Grandin

Music, Sports, Bad

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
Wendy O. Williams

Hate, Bored, Makes

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar

Love, Art, Amazing

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Fred Rogers

Future, Past, Parents

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music, Moving, Parents

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Maynard James Keenan

Nation, Behavior, Historical

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan

Time, Against, Mark

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Learn, Again

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
Kate Moss

Love, Design, School

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

Made, Ideas, Poet

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry W. Kendall

Change, Science, Face

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
Ralph Fiennes

Life, Good, Find

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
J. Michael Straczynski

Brain, Making, Memory

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Xun Zi

Good, Heart, Order

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
Al Gore

Change, Problem, Become

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
Lawrence Welk

Famous, Original, Harmonic

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
Christopher Alexander

Life, Work, Deep

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn

Life, Try, Whether

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.
Leighton Meester

Life, Love, Parents

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
Christopher Alexander

Nature, Character, Thoughts

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
Andrew Cuomo

Change, Reality, Weather

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Through, Free

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

Love, Music, Time

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
Dick Wolf

Time, Down, After

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