“If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.” IfsHappensRememberCertainNextLetting GoComfortablePatternsLeapLeap Of Faith Author:Rachael Yamagata
“The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.” AmericaMovingWinningMorningElectionPatternsOptimisticBarackPresidentialCandidatesPresidential ElectionAmerican PresidentJohn KennedyYes We Can Author:Mark Shields
“Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.” MindHelpingPastWorryMeditationLetting GoPatternsFocusedDwellingDwelling On The Past Author:Deepak Chopra
“I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.” WorldWellsSometimesChallengesExcitingPatternsScaryAcceleration Author:Jean Houston
“When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.” HelpingBrainPatternsSettlingRepeatsPathways Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.” UseProblemCultureSocialSupportConflictPatternsTraditionalVarietyTabooBleedingClinicMenstruationSocial Taboos Author:Ruth Simmons
“The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.” FeelsPossibilityBehaviorPatternsSettlingExploringBiggest FearBehavior Patterns Author:Reggie Watts
“Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.” FeelsYearsMayPainSufferingAsksIssuesFocusFineExercisePerceptionApproachPatternsCome UpCuresDisorderPersistentDiscomfortBothered Author:Deepak Chopra
“People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington. And Democrats are about to anoint someone who represents everything this country is tired of.” PeopleCountryPartyBreakReadyTiredDemocratPatternsRestless Author:Mike Pence
“I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there I transitioned from challenging myself to make T-shirts to starting to make custom pieces for celebrities.” ChallengesPiecesCuttingDesignStartingPatternsShirtsCustomsPacksT ShirtSewingChallenging Myself Author:Fred Foster
“I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.” WritingElementsPatternsSingersRhymeLyricists Author:Erykah Badu
“In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.” WantBelieveCasesExampleTrumpClintonPatternsSettingSettingsWant U Author:Vladimir Putin
“I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note and going, like, "What is that? Who is that?" and finding out it was Gucci and being surprised.” RememberSeeingFindingsClothesNotesPatternsGucci Author:Jared Leto
“Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.” IfsWorldRecordsFocusOne ThingFindingsNotesPatternsMissionsCopiesDocumentsOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Keri Smith
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.” BelieveSufferingI BelieveEasyChristWaterBuiltAll ThingsStonesConnectionsPatternsRedemptionNarrativeAlienationAll Things New Author:Shauna Niequist
“History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.” LooksPatternsComplicatedFractals Author:Ted Nelson
“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” KnowsLittlesMatterStoriesKnowingInformationFitEasierPatternsConsistencyGood StoryCompleteness Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.” IfsWantFirstsLooksBodySeeingDesignShapesModelsFirst TimeDressesPatternsDesignerCollectionsPush YourselfWomen's Bodies Author:Christian Siriano
“The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.” WellsKindAbleCan DoSpaceBrainComputerPatternsCompareFlexibilityAnalog Author:Freeman Dyson
“The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.” StillsDifferentJobsWhiteLevelsLowsGardenBlueWorkersPatternsAgentsRecognitionMake SenseLoserConstructionRobotsGardenerCollarsAccountantsBlue CollarBrokersLow LevelWhite CollarConstruction WorkersBlue Collar Workers Author:Michio Kaku
“Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.” SuccessfulStrategyPatterns Author:Scott D. Anthony
“In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.” IdeasRealityFacesChallengesDecisionAnswersDealsCompanyStudyTeamOrganizationAskingInvestmentPatternsIntuitionUncertaintyRelyFundDecision MakingMakersArtificialDiverseVentureInnovativeDefaultCalendarsParticipatingInnovatorsVenture CapitalDecision MakersAssemblingStagingInnovative IdeasDiverse Teams Author:Scott D. Anthony
“When we are looking at ideas, we really are thinking of three things. Are you doing something that seems consistent with the patterns of success? Are there reasons to believe you have or can access the right people to make it happen? Can we play a unique role in enabling success? We all have our rules of thumb, I suppose.” PeopleThinkingBelieveIdeasReasonPlaySeemsHappensThreeRolesUniquePatternsAccessConsistentThree ThingsThumbsMake It HappenEnabling Author:Scott D. Anthony
“There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but there isn't even one yet about the women's movement? It's hard to capture because it's so sprawling, and it's an ideology.” ThinkingWayHardFilmCertainRightsWonderfulMovementPatternsOpeningCivil RightsIdeologyCapturePathwaysCivil Rights Movement Author:Marisa Tomei
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.” PeopleWayShouldLooksYoungCertainCultureAbilityFashionRegardPatternsResistanceUrbanSwaggerHegemony Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.” IfsGivingArtDifferentUsePlansStreetsHistoricalPatternsStrangerExperimentsLocation Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.” WorldDesireExpectationsPatternsRidiculousFixedHubris Author:Kehinde Wiley
“It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.” PeopleMeanCertainCultureStreetsPatternsMean PeopleSubculture Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoeReasonValuesInterestStudyAdviceParticularHarderRelationPatternsDataExplanationConstructsStarting OverMeasurementProminent Author:Andrew Gelman
“I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.” WayWantEffortHavensConsciousPatternsRepeatsWant Me Author:Molly Shannon
“You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.” KnowsPatternsChickensFlourFried Chicken Author:Ben Affleck
“Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it.” WayTryingFactsProblemConditionsNeededPatternsSeekingSolveMeritAddressesNeverthelessRecognizingAttemptingIntricateSlumsBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.” MayEnoughPatternsBeing TrueRecognitionNeverthelessExploringSemblanceBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.” KnowsNeedsHumansLawPatternsSeekingObjectivesFixedDescriptionLaws Of Nature Author:Frank Schaeffer
“I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.” PeopleGivingEndsWantedToo MuchPatternsToo Much Power Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.” KindProblemMajorsBlindPatternsArguingAlgorithmsMajor ProblemsBlind Trust Author:Cathy O'Neil
“My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.” ProcessCreativeGrowing UpGrowingHeardMomClothesPicksPatternsMy MomStoresCreative ProcessFabric Author:Gwen Stefani
“I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns are put into place, and certain behaviors keep getting repeated.” ThinkingCertainDifficultTermPovertyBehaviorPatternsCycles Author:James Redford
“If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.” IfsWayLongWholeBeautifulTurnsNextOpportunityPerfectWasteBenefitsLong TimeEmptyPreparedLifetimePatternsBest WayNext TimeHaulLong HaulSamsara Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.” SelfProblemLonelinessSelf EsteemAmbitionPatternsEsteemRecognitionWho We AreInherentAntidoteHabitualBuddha Nature Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesWholeProblemSchoolCertainCultureBeliefStrongAcceptingStyleGoes OnUniversityPatternsExpectedTendenciesExceptionGraduatesImplicitGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.” SpecialUniquePatterns Author:Roger Housden
“I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.” WorldYearsI CanBookEyeFeltRoomsMorningAliveSeeingColorCoupleRedYears AgoTablesRosePatternsCoffeeI RealizedHonestlyBitterChairsTendernessSweetnessLiving RoomPouringUp EarlySeeing The WorldSofas Author:Roger Housden
“I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.” KnowsI CanPatterns Author:Jimmy Page
“Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.” FitPatternsLieutenants Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school, and they will explain themselves to you. So we got a hold of, like, 50 high-school yearbooks, including my mom's from 1925 or something, and we discovered that they're all the same.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantHumansLooksPersonsSaidSeemsSchoolDifficultLike YouMomBehaviorHigh SchoolIncludingPatternsMy MomHuman BehaviorYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.” IfsStillsAbleSoundReligiousPiecesImagineColorPagesUniqueSingingRootsWindowGlassesPatternsSmellBrandsDevicesBottlesTornIconsCoca ColaStained GlassStained Glass WindowsShards Of Glass Author:Martin Lindstrom
“The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.” FailingPromiseMoonBlamePatternsVulnerableUsual Author:Van Jones
“I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.” NationsProcessBehaviorHistoricalPatternsParallels Author:Maynard James Keenan