Patterns Quotes - Page 39

Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

Tony Robbins

Fashion, Thinking, Magic

FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

Debbie Ford

Strong, Fall, Past

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Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

Gary Zukav

Emotional, People, Use

FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 11, 2015

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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Pema Chodron

Trying, Alive, Harmony

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Letting Go, Stories, Goes On

Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.18, Hawthorne Books

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Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Order, Water, Wish

Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.15, Hawthorne Books

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In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

Riane Eisler

Struggle, World, Partnership

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When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

John Travolta

New York, Airplane, Boys

"John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Kim Stanley

Despair, Defense, Firsts

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If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.

Twiggy

Lovely, Fabric, Want

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A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside peoples minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

Criss Angel

Thinking, People, Understanding

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Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Timothy Leary

Keys, Drug, Mind

Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

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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.

Aldous Huxley

Destiny, Chance, Horror

Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.24, Harper Collins

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To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.

Frances M. Beal

Mean, Commitment, History

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Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Scott McCloud

Watches, Hell, Comic Book

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The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

Ayn Rand

Strong, Men, Egalitarianism

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

Iris Murdoch

Summer, God, Mother

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Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.

Fred Barnes

Book, Redneck, Race

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When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.

Judy Cannato

Believe, Talking, Acquisition

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Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

Claire Vaye Watkins

Memories, Wife, Kitchen

Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.

Dore Ashton

Artist, Simple, Garden

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There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

Bill Drayton

People, Done, Fields

"Celebrating The Life Of A Changemaker: Steve Muthee" by Michael Chertok, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2014.

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Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Henry Steele Commager

Government, Effort, Disloyalty

"Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, 1947.

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I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

Dave Matthews

Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

Richard Thompson

Funny, Inspiring, Nice

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