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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.”

People Done Whole Millions Fields Patterns Things Done

Author:Bill Drayton

“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.”

People Knows World Feelings Felt Fellows Patterns Scientism

Author:Josiah Royce

“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.”

Western Musical Patterns Contribution Over It Melody Ingredients Introducing Repetition Gdp Western Music

Author:Terry Riley

“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.”

Thinking Writing Trying May Reason Sound Guitar Patterns Rhythm Flaws Unusual

Author:Dave Matthews

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

People Thinking Has Beens Might Funny Inspiring Nice Patterns Covered Guitarist

Author:Richard Thompson

“Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.”

Inspirational Dream Add Patterns Doing Good Grandiose

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.”

Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues

“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.”

Humans Force Leadership Creative Accounts Patterns Appreciation Manifestation Technological Representing Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:John Grierson

“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.”

People Years Bigs Time Numbers Gone Patterns Strikes Peril

Author:Dick Wolf

“What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.”

“In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.”

People Shows Stars Periods Capacity Patterns Survived No Money

Author:Peter Garrett

“Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.”

Men Real Self God Earth Consciousness Millions Ego Built Universal Patterns Folds Self Consciousness Microcosm

Author:Carl Jung

“A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.”

Ideas Lasts Science Materials Patterns Mathematician

Author:G. H. Hardy

“When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.”

Home Change Dark Environment Air Walking Behavior Comfortable Patterns Smell Intense Familiar Breathing Grass Companion Leap Sweat Wraps Fresh Air Sleepy Cocoons

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.”

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat

“Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.”

Thinking Humans Brain Perception Concepts Patterns Tolerate Ambiguity Human Brain

Author:Edward de Bono

“Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.”

Given Democracy Clear Shapes Patterns Tyranny Incubation

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.”

Needs Habit Patterns Repeats

Book:You Can Heal Your Life

Source: You Can Heal Your Life

“How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.”

Thinking Ideas Hope Modern Mathematics Patterns Math Conclusion Mathematical Arriving Organizational Generalization Anthropologists

Author:Edmund Leach

“In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.”

Light Form Certain Culture Difficult Subjects Design Easier Civilization Mathematics Patterns Extremes Physics All Time Permanent Propositions Similarity Epoch Astrophysics

Author:Philippe Starck

“The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.”

Certain Literature Fantasy Intellectual Advantage Patterns Novelists Subjective Subjectivity Essayists

Author:Manuel Puig

“But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?”

Ifs Men Social Effort Patterns Propaganda Substitutes

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.”

“Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.”

“History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.”

Giving Humans Two Action Easy Stuff History Records Materials Patterns Impression Inches Human Actions

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.”

Book History Patterns Ideology

Author:F. M. Powicke

“Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.”

Men Matter Stories Fall Pieces Events Kings Bird Horse Patterns Repeats Relax Thread Nests Cradle Marble Upkeep

Book:The Way the Crow Flies

Source: The Way the Crow Flies

“In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.”

Writing Art Stories Use Today Past Fun Technology Novel Tools Let Me Patterns Available Technique Contemporary Having Fun Fabric Quilters

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Ideas Term Students Conversation My Friends Structure Patterns Critical Technique Unconscious Introducing Hypnotic

Book:The Game

Source: The Game

“What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.”

Use School Language Influence Tvs Patterns Dues Reports Our Society Acceptable Foul Profanity Foul Language

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.”

Ideas Ends Patterns Following Choreography Follow Through

Author:Martha Graham

“People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”

People Matter Stories Together Lying Crazy Events Comfort Patterns Random Events

Author:Patrick Ness

“Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.”

Way Mind Art Made Order Process Consciousness Enemy Seeing Broken Aspect Patterns Dues Experiments Invention Evolve Perceive Visuals New Ways Arrangements Complacency Visual Art Broken Up

Author:John Dos Passos

“Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.”

Men Earth Grows Destiny Creatures Plant Patterns Seeds Architect

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection”

Ifs Needs Children Law Individual Social Responsibility Exercise Equal Resources Patterns Protection Denied Providing Compelling Consumption Deterioration Equal Protection

Author:John Holdren

“Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in”

Men Country Reason Seems Opinion Practice Example Tests Patterns Customs Barbarism

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.”

Play Home Patterns Bars

Author:Marc Bolan

“Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.”

Heart Stories Memories Space Shapes Forgotten Clouds Patterns Bones Worms Purple Crushed Spills Mills Polished Space Between

Author:Keith Miller

“In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.”

Soul Faces Challenges Divine Masters Battle Patterns This Life Your Soul Repeats Free Will Again And Again

Author:Brad Meltzer

“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”

“I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: "Honk if you love Jesus." No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one's love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.”

“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”

“It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.”

“Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.”

Natural Technology Shapes Resources Patterns Radio Natural Resources Cotton Interdependence Ratios Staples Typography Timber

Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.”

People Humans Motivation Numbers Personality Behavior Forgotten Patterns Consistent Human Behavior Integrated Human Personality

Book:Engleby: A Novel

Source: Engleby: A Novel

“I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.”

I Can Patterns

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern.”

Wave Patterns

Author:Robert Prechter

“It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.”

Government Age Church Essentials Elements Structure Patterns Theology Organizational Apostolic Organizational Structure

Book:A Theology of the New Testament

Source: A Theology of the New Testament

“Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.”

World Way Children Ideas Shows Three Study Scientist Patterns Experiments Data Three Ways

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.”

Persons Real Dream Shapes Mark Patterns Fishes Symbols Imaginary Hood Reverie Lizards Cobras

Author:Jim Woodring

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