Patterns Quotes
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![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Survivor
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Survivor
![Oliver Sacks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1610978711i/843200._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.
We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
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We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
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![Michael Shermer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221964940i/47788._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”
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![Tony Hillerman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1281729229i/26917._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Coyote Waits
― Coyote Waits
![John R.W. Stott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534956933i/14919141._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
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![Jacqueline Carey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205262579i/9237.jpg)
“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”
― Kushiel's Chosen
― Kushiel's Chosen
![Jacqueline Carey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205262579i/9237.jpg)
“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
― Kushiel's Chosen
― Kushiel's Chosen
![Matt Haig](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1708503977i/76360._UY200_CR5,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There are patterns to life . . . Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
![Stephen Dunn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1275503393i/10532._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“Connubial
Because 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.”
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Because 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.”
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![Lisa Kleypas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1288899037i/27847._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”
― Love in the Afternoon
― Love in the Afternoon
![Orson Scott Card](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1294099952i/589._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.”
― Shadow of the Hegemon
― Shadow of the Hegemon
![Steven Pinker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235758085i/3915._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”
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![Mary Balogh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670000353i/9759._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.”
― Simply Love
― Simply Love
![Gabrielle Zevin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1503541462i/40593._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“A great textile, like the William Morris Strawberry Thief, is a piece of art, but it takes a lot of time to make a piece of art. It isn't simply design either. You have to understand the fabrics and what they can bear. You have to understand the dyeing process and how to achieve certain colors and what will make the color last through the ages. If you make a mistake, you might have to begin again."
"I don't think I know Strawberry Thief," Sadie said.
"One moment," Mrs. Watanabe said. Mrs. Watanabe went into her bedroom, and she returned with a little footstool that was upholstered in a reproduction of Strawberry Thief. The pattern depicted birds and strawberries in a garden, and although Sadie hadn't known the name, she recognized the print when she saw it.
"This was William Morris's garden. These were his strawberries. Those were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"I don't think I know Strawberry Thief," Sadie said.
"One moment," Mrs. Watanabe said. Mrs. Watanabe went into her bedroom, and she returned with a little footstool that was upholstered in a reproduction of Strawberry Thief. The pattern depicted birds and strawberries in a garden, and although Sadie hadn't known the name, she recognized the print when she saw it.
"This was William Morris's garden. These were his strawberries. Those were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
![Amit Ray](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1660031342i/492884._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Great leaders know that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.”
― Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
― Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in similar patterns. Many communities are made up of the same kind of people to the extent that we intentionally have to seek people whose stories are completely different from ours.”
― Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
― Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
![[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1416677639p2/1173457.jpg)
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”
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![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“See yonder leafless tree against the sky,
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And ever subdividing separate,
Limbs into branches, branches into twigs,
As if they loved the element, & hasted
To dissipate their being into it.”
― Collected Poems and Translations
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And ever subdividing separate,
Limbs into branches, branches into twigs,
As if they loved the element, & hasted
To dissipate their being into it.”
― Collected Poems and Translations
“For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night?
What if it were much harder to love what is irregular, interruptive, scattered, and uncontained?”
― The Long Form
What if it were much harder to love what is irregular, interruptive, scattered, and uncontained?”
― The Long Form
![Nadine Dalton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1710838130i/48775135._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes, a coincidence is a pattern you haven’t figured out yet.”
― Pineapple Pirates of the Caribbean: Part One
― Pineapple Pirates of the Caribbean: Part One
![Jeanette Winterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561070665i/9399._UY200_CR60,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Humans are pattern-makers. We make patterns with other people in our lives. We are enmeshed. Break-ups mess with the pattern. Death is a break-up of a relationship, and with it, a part of the self.”
― Night Side of the River
― Night Side of the River
![Jeanette Winterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561070665i/9399._UY200_CR60,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of the day? Our life together was many things, concrete, tangible things, that included bacon, potatoes, coffee and toothpaste, but it was also a pattern. We had flow, colour, texture. We were the originators and makers of the shared life that we worked on every day. Now, I have to work on it alone. What I have are memories. The past. The present is no longer a work in progress.”
― Night Side of the River
― Night Side of the River
![Brainard Carey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647522537i/4635280._UX200_CR0,116,200,200_.jpg)
“what makes him a professional is his consistency”
― Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money
― Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money
“The vital roles that schema and pattern play in Archaic art can be considered symptoms of a larger Greek demand for regularity and order which extends beyond the realms of representational art into architecture, poetry, and philosophy and beyond the limits of the Archaic period itself. The language of Homer is highly ordered: its formulae were originally patterns for the ear. Hesiod's Theogony imposes patterns on gods and heroes by putting each in his genealogical place, and his Works and Days moves from a particular instance of injustice to universal truths and patterns of human activity. Archaic poetry in general is full of literary schemata or conventions, and Archaic poets express thought and meaning through the harmony of opposites. Archilochos detected a rhysmos (pattern) even in the rise and fall of human fortunes. The philosophers of Miletos attempted to fit nature to preconceived patterns and so to extract order from apparent chaos. Pythagoras (or his followers) ordered the world through number. The urge to impose kosmos (order) on the nature of things is not peculiar to the Archaic mind – in Xenophon's Oikonomikos Sokrates reports that all things, even pots and pans, look more beautiful when they are kept in order, and even the space between them looks beautiful – but is nonetheless particularly characteristic of it.”
― The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.
― The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.
![Jennifer Lynn Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243935916i/164187._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“You don’t understand it. But just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you get to ignore it. You can’t just pretend the pattern doesn’t exist and hope it goes away.’
- Sloane”
― All In
- Sloane”
― All In
“11-11-11 (Three Times in Row)
Whenever GOD speaks something once, it is for Revelation. HE reveals HIS nature, HIS plan, HIS strategy or HIS will by declaring something once. Revelation is the same as Life-ing or birthing it. For the mouth of the LORD carries creative power, and when HE speaks, HE begins.
Whenever GOD speaks something twice, it is for Covenant. When JESUS would speak to the people, HE would often say, "Verily, Verily" or "Surely, Surely". The LORD was teaching us a pattern of setting a matter in motion in the earth.
When CHRIST was setting covenant into the hearts, minds and atmosphere of the people; HE repeated HIMself because truth needs agreement in the earth to take root and produce. Truth is truth if no one ever agrees, but truth cannot bring forth fruit in human lives until it finds agreement from an earth born believer. When GOD could find no one to agree so HE could manifest HIS own word, HE made covenant with HIMself.
Whenever GOD speaks something in a pattern of three's, it is to reveal the Kingdom. GOD is seen when HE reveals HIS will seven times, but HE is understood (known) when HE shows HIS face (nature) three times.
HE shows us HIMself as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We see HIS Kingdom through Righteousness, Peace and Joy. We understand HIS dominion as HE who was, and Is, and Is to come...”
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Whenever GOD speaks something once, it is for Revelation. HE reveals HIS nature, HIS plan, HIS strategy or HIS will by declaring something once. Revelation is the same as Life-ing or birthing it. For the mouth of the LORD carries creative power, and when HE speaks, HE begins.
Whenever GOD speaks something twice, it is for Covenant. When JESUS would speak to the people, HE would often say, "Verily, Verily" or "Surely, Surely". The LORD was teaching us a pattern of setting a matter in motion in the earth.
When CHRIST was setting covenant into the hearts, minds and atmosphere of the people; HE repeated HIMself because truth needs agreement in the earth to take root and produce. Truth is truth if no one ever agrees, but truth cannot bring forth fruit in human lives until it finds agreement from an earth born believer. When GOD could find no one to agree so HE could manifest HIS own word, HE made covenant with HIMself.
Whenever GOD speaks something in a pattern of three's, it is to reveal the Kingdom. GOD is seen when HE reveals HIS will seven times, but HE is understood (known) when HE shows HIS face (nature) three times.
HE shows us HIMself as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We see HIS Kingdom through Righteousness, Peace and Joy. We understand HIS dominion as HE who was, and Is, and Is to come...”
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