“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.” IfsHumansForceEffortCreativeFunctionClaimsLaysPatternsIntellectCeaseReasoningMonopoly Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.” WayLittlesUseHappensMastersFunctionPatternsWeatherLandscape Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.” IfsHomeCertainNextCommunityRoomsCitiesBabyShapesFunctionPatternsBreatheStreamsDistinctionHospitalsTrafficChamberGroceriesRecreationCorridorsTrolleys Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.” ShouldFunctionSurprisePatternsTexture Author:Robert Denning
“The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.” ArtRealArt IsFunctionPatternsNew Thought Author:Jean Dubuffet
“Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been proposed in which various cognitive activities are represented by combinations of the firing patterns of individual neurons.” FirstsHas BeensIdeasIndividualMemoriesNumbersActivityModelsFunctionBasesPatternsVariousCombinationDescriptionCognitiveFiringNeuronsModificationHayek Author:Gerald Edelman
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” ImportantRealFormMotivationEnergyLeadershipLeaderRolesPositionCapacityTasksOrganizationFunctionPatternsBeing A LeaderReal PowerFuture LeadersLeadership Roles Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.” ImportantCountryWould BeAbleDiseaseTrainingDoctorsFunctionPatternsUnusualNurseSurveillanceDoctors And Nurses Author:Margaret Chan
“Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.” FormInterestConsciousnessTheoryHigherFunctionHistoricalPatternsObjectivesIdeologyCommunismRitualFalsehood Author:Herbert Marcuse
“A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.” AbleCommunityParticularBrokenFunctionSpeciesComplexesPatternsDestroyedComplexityLinksDiverseEcologySevereEcologicalResilientEcosystemsDisturbanceBiodiversityInterconnectionOverlapping Author:Fritjof Capra
“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.” WayHas BeensSchoolChoicesDifficultAbilityAnswersInterestingFourSucceedFunctionPatternsMultipleSuccess In LifeAbility To ChooseMultiple Choice Author:David Mamet