Quotes and Sayings About Patterns
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
-- Adam Fletcher -
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
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There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
-- Adrienne Rich -
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
-- Alan Moore -
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
-- Albert Einstein -
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought
-- Albert Einstein -
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
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Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.
-- Alexander SuvorovSource : "Suvorof". Book by W. Lyon Blease, 1926.
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No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
-- Alexander WangSource : "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.
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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
-- Alfred Adler -
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
-- Alice Childress -
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
-- Alison LurieSource : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media
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In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.
-- Alton Tobey -
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Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.
-- Amalia Kahana-Carmon -
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
-- Amanda PalmerSource : Song: The Point Of It All, Album: Who Killed Amanda Palmer, 2008
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
-- Anais Nin -
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
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Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
-- Andrew CuomoSource : Twitter post from Apr 29, 2017
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
-- Ann Druyan -
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
-- Ann Macbeth -
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
-- Anne Carson -
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There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
-- Anne Hathaway -
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
-- Archibald MacLeish