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“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

“Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.”

Remember Religion Atheism Emotional Findings Patterns Seeking Primates Adept

Author:Michael Shermer

“Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!”

Action Habit Patterns

Author:Denise Austin

“[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.”

Men Mean Form Culture Attitude Patterns Communicate Symbols Conception Symbolic

Book:The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

“All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.”

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.”

Firsts I Can Seems Mother Energy Sleep Boys Quiet Daughter Males Patterns Awake My Daughter Serene

Author:Sadie Frost

“See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things.”

Firsts Has Beens Real Whole Desire Lost Growth Born Stupid Goes On First Time Misery Patterns Whole Life Circles Unnecessary Clinging Unnecessary Things

Author:Rajneesh

“Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.”

Ifs Values Freedom Consciousness Habit Higher Patterns Supreme Unconscious Your Freedom Unconsciousness Gestalt

Author:Rajneesh

“Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.”

Individual Environment Awareness Media Development Environmental Patterns Critical Professionalism Ground Rules

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.”

Made Challenges Brain Millions Objects Research Patterns Billions Cells Nerves Dozen Thread Units Ingenuity Intricate Conducting Interconnected Weaving

Author:William Feindel

“Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...”

Brain Millions Patterns Meaningful Abiding Enchanted Dissolving Neurobiology Brain Science

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.”

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but faith as a principle of power comes from a consistent pattern of obedient behavior and attitudes. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.”

“The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.”

Humans Light White Color Broken Patterns Streams Being Yourself Rainbow Being Single Being Myself Broken Up I Love Myself Prisms White Light Colors Of The Rainbow

Author:Charles R. Brown

“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”

“All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.”

Life Is Patterns Life Lesson Can Not

Author:Belva Plain

“The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”

Firsts Objects Produce Integrity Understood Patterns Propaganda Convince Patriotic Uniforms Utterance Dissonance Unorthodox

Author:Alan Bullock

“If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.”

Ifs Dream Given Wall Shadow Philosophical Prison Patterns Surface Cells Our Dreams Oblivion Static Colourful Prison Cells

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.”

Animal Sweet Creatures Philosophical Rewards Hunger Patterns Harm Gentle Beast Vegetarian Vegan Animal Rights Vegetarianism Animal Compassion

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true among exercisers at all levels, despite their different goals. A major element in mental training is visualization ... Visualizing a positive outcome can create a pattern of success, as long as you set realistic and specific goals.”

Source: On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People

“The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.”

Made Law Political Choices Cases Dangerous Equal Patterns Protection Civil Rights Granted Broads Attorney Selected Choices Made Equal Protection

Author:John Sparkman

“What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Looks Has Beens Seems Able Plans Evolution Incredibles Patterns Fishes Glances Like Something Amazing Things Blueprints Stripes

Author:Philip Ball

“I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominoid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination.”

Needs Kind Made Use Opportunity Imagination Records Events Information Evolution Exercise Patterns Broads Vehicle Diverse Fossils Enjoyable Integrating

Author:David Pilbeam

“The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there.”

Men May Important Choices Realizing Accepting Goes On Consequence Harmony Important Things Patterns Chosen Free Will

Author:Swami Yogananda

“It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.”

Would Be Force Sex Differences Ability Attitude Fit Skills Female Patterns Characteristics Feminine Masculine Pretense Pretension Skills And Abilities

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.”

Men Important Facts Truth Young Feet Fit Truth Is Trade Patterns Nine Young Man Reporters

Author:Joseph Alsop

“It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.”

Thinking Want Inspirational Needs Stills Past Patterns Life Changing Better Yourself Complete Life

Author:Demi Lovato

“Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.”

Men Humans Children Consciousness Psychology Patterns Unconscious Ancestor Possessed Behaviour Psychics Adapted

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.”

Men Love Humans Heart Real Earth Belief Sea Special Divine Thousand Beats South Patterns Tribes Human Heart Divine Love Tattooed Real Human

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.”

Age Marriage Hell Patterns Contrary Bliss Strife Celestial Discord Wedlock

Book:Henry VI, Part One

Source: Henry VI, Part One

“How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.”

Deals Impossible Depends Tasks Patterns Persistence Inadequate

Author:Piero Ferrucci

“As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.”

Knows Love Form Taken Parenting Patterns Vulnerability Loved Ones Indispensable Our Love Egotism

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns... Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole.”

Whole Universe Energy Patterns Inseparable Parts Of A Whole

Book:Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field

Source: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field

“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”

Writing May Ends Whole Jobs Understanding Novel Written Findings Patterns Deeper Crafts Theme Significance Sharpening

Author:Diane Johnson

“Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something called your 'pattern of life.' When are you doing these kind of activities? When do you wake up? When do you go to sleep? What other phones are around you when you wake up and go to sleep? Are you with someone who's not your wife?”

Kind Home Able Sleep Wife Activity Wake Up Patterns Phones Checks Memorable Going To Sleep

Author:Edward Snowden

“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.”

“What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.”

Ifs Littles Long War Return Civilization Remains Species Patterns Wilderness Broads Display Persist Biodiversity Overdue Armistice

Author:Stephanie Mills

“We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”

Looks Mean Children Values Produce Conflict Behavior Adults Patterns Handle Nonviolence Nurturing Child Rearing

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern.”

People Writing Ideas Language Notion Patterns Decay Conform Arbitrary Usage Alterations Expressing Ideas

Author:Bill Bryson

“Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.”

Ifs Mind Humans Would Be Eye Able Bits Human Beings Teaching Appreciate Ears Sight Harmony Mathematics Structure Patterns Hearing Math Mathematical Pairs Human Mind

Author:Keith Devlin

“In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers to these questions. In fact, for every pattern that appears, a mathematician feels he ought to know why it appears.”

Ifs Knows Feels Doe Facts Asks Answers Teaching Goes On Ought Mathematics Patterns Math Mathematician

Book:Prelude to Mathematics

Source: Prelude to Mathematics

“Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.”

Grows Growth Views Common Teaching Discipline Mathematics Lays Rate Patterns Math Formulas Mathematician Rapids Calculations Static Math Education Mathematics By Mathematicians

Author:Lynn Steen

“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”

Humans Children Language Grows Rich Teaching Mathematics Patterns Math Variety Appropriate Exposed Regularity Interconnection

Author:Lynn Steen

“When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.”

Matter Vision Subjects Fit Photography Photographer Patterns Following Composition Repetition Cliche Subject Matter Tedious Freshness Pictorial Following Rules

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.”

People Interesting Photography Photographer Patterns Interrupted

Author:Jay Maisel

“We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.”

Way Language Community Party Cutting Speech Concepts Patterns Agreement Significance Organize

Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf

“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.”

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