Patterns Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Patterns

Please enjoy these Patterns Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

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

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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization,
is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally
confused and contrary commuting patterns.
- Brock Yates

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

The life history of the individual is first and foremost
an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally
handed down in his community.
- Ruth Benedict

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench.
You pick up their patterns.
That's what I got the most out of this year.
I know what other coaches like to do.
- Isiah Thomas

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own,
serves only to make us ever more unknown,
ever less free, ever more solitary.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes,
certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
- Bridget Riley

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I play patterns.
I'll make up a pattern and just play it.
- Richard Manuel

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech
patterns and outlook on life -
and how narrow that is.
- Ellen Burstyn

The way is long if one follows precepts,
but short...
if one follows patterns.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns
in order to look at things in a different way.
- Edward de Bono

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

Basically, I hate conformity.
I hate people telling me what to do.
It makes me want to smash things.
So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored,
I could throw up!
- Wendy O. Williams

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

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to
be unlike the feelings of other people.
I never consciously thought, except after patterns
that the world or my fellows set for me.
- Josiah Royce

I grew up to have my father's looks,
my father's speech patterns,
my father's posture, my father's opinions,
and my mother's contempt for my father.
- Jules Feiffer

I like creating these rhythmic patterns.
These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
- Danny Elfman

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
- Ronald Graham

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns.
There's no point in complaining about them,
any more than complaining that lions might eat you.
- David Mellor

But it is strange how many rational beings believe
the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible
to patterns on a blackboard.
- Frederick Pollock

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love
to have but there almost never is on a film -
to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
- Danny Elfman

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

Theories are patterns without value.
What counts is action.
- Constantin Brancusi

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
- Lawrence Welk

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
- Marshall McLuhan

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

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

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping
out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns
that create and store memory.
- J. Michael Straczynski

Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily,
and I like to do everything incredibly hastily.
So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.
- Adam Savage

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors,
woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile
and never directly inherited.
- Margaret Mead

To understand is to perceive patterns.
- Isaiah Berlin

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns,
controlling patterns in time and space.
- Ronald Graham

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the
same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
- Norman McLaren

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological
evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence
of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.
- John G. D. Clark

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns,
then even if one's desires are many,
what harm would they be to good order?
- Xun Zi

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

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared
to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
- Maurice Strong

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence.
An evil mind, then an evil face.
- Jimmy Sangster

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation
that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
- Maynard James Keenan

The clarification of visual forms and their organization
in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of
such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective
training grounds of the young mind.
- Rudolf Arnheim

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

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

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

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting
certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video,
shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
- Atom Egoyan

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more
insight into the ways of past humans than we have into
the ways of past dinosaurs.
For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually
arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest
patterns of human history.
- Jared Diamond

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing.
one of my specialties was to be able to play for a
really long time without stopping and I would play
these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.
- Terry Riley

I had some of the students in my finance class actually
do some empirical work on capital structures,
to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data,
but we couldn't see any.
- Merton Miller

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography,
soil profile and distinctive weather patterns,
is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
- Peter Garrett

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns,
is that there is not one organizational procedure more
advantageous than another,
perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
- Morton Feldman

Life is a process of working out what's not working
for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying
then not walk into the same thing again.
Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
- Siobhan Fahey

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

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

By giving the public a rich and full melody,
distinctly arranged and well played,
all the time creating new tone colors and patterns,
I feel we have a better chance of being successful.
I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
- Glenn Miller

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one
piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time
it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces',
because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns
and the structure was new to music at that time.
- Terry Riley

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science,
with new, ingenious devices and techniques,
can rescue us from the troubles we face without our
having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity.
This is not so.
- Henry W. Kendall

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry.
It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow.
I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
- Michael Nesmith

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

By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I stopped loving my father a long time ago.
What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
- Anais Nin

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes-
not to actually use it in a song,
but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.
- Ken Hill

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts,
and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness,
which he had left them.
- John Strachan

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end,
it never has to.
- Robert Creeley

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

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her
less successful peers at solving problems;
her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned
what problems are worth solving.
- Ray Kurzweil

It is true that the politician, in his professional character,
does not always, or even very often,
conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
- Frederick Scott Oliver

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

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord
pattern and work out the lyrics over that.
- Roger McGuinn

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern
by invoking a single quantity.
- Gregory Bateson

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of
experiences in the same pattern,
but in different colors.
- Robert Graves

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