Patterns Quotes

• To understand is to perceive patterns.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wisdom, Understanding, Language

  Isaiah Berlin (1959). “Historical Inevitability”

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• Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Beauty, Dark, Light

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• When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

  Tuli Kupferberg

  Change, Healing, Past

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• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

  Dennis Prager

  Essence, Findings

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• 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

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Individual, Thread

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Recognition, Enjoyment

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Pride, Doe

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Recognition, Enjoyment

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Martial Arts, Truth Is, Express Yourself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

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• Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

  Al Capp

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  Kate DiCamillo

  I Can

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• Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

  Arne Glimcher

  Moving, Fate, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Woven, Needs

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• Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

  Susan Howatch

  Design, Purpose, World

  Susan Howatch (1971). “Penmarric”

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

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Conformity, Revulsion, Mark

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Virtue

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Way, Ifs

  Epistulae, 6.5 (translated by R M Gummere).

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• 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

  Trying, Return, Aging

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.187, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

  Francis Marion

  Life, Strange

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