Patterns Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Pregnancy, Past, Parent

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.106, Penguin

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• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  Ernst Engel

  Demand, Income, Employment

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• 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, Years, Numbers

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Ocean, Weather, Space

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• I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

  Little Richard

  Happy Friday, Ideas, Wildlife

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• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

  "The Problem Behind All Problems". Book by Michael Hansbury, 2009.

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• Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

  Andre Norton

  Cat, People, Creative

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• Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Change, Travel

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• But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Recognition, Method

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.115, Henry Holt and Company

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• I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

  Trisha Goddard

  Sleep, Week

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Funny, Thinking, Way

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• 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

  Education, Math, Unique

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Mean, Mathematical Equations

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 27-28, 1978.

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

  Lawrence Welk

  Dukes, Originals

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• There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

  Nikki Sixx

  Passion, Jail, Addiction

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• Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

  Marston Morse

  Play, Design, Important

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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• Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Data, Support

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.13, Basic Books

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Aging

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

  Jim Hodges

  Growing Up, Writing, Emotional

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• Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

  John Grierson

  Leadership, Appreciation, Creative

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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

  Over You, May, Strive

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• Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

  Gregory Bateson

  Two, Interesting, Information

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• While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Evil, World, Lasts

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