Patterns Quotes - Page 10

• Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Powerful, Islands

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

  Dan Millman

  Children, Reality, Creating

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• And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Creativity, Simple

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• There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

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• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mastery, Martial Arts

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Insane, Problem, Knows

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.65, Delacorte Press

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• The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Lying, Profound

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

  Marcel Proust

  Feet, Shadow, Together

  Marcel Proust (1999). “The captive & the fugitive”

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• If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knives, Poison, Arson

  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• We make patterns, we share moments.

  Jenny Downham

  Moments, Share

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Sometimes, Moments

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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• She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Children, Memories, Misunderstood

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• When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Thinking, Confusing, Facts

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• If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all. --Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Blood, Ties

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• (True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation.

  Diane Duane

  Color, Names, White

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Maturity

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Long, Easy, Changed

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• I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

  Eve Ensler

  Home, Thinking, Violence

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.137, Villard

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• Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Knitting, Upset Stomach

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• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Lying, Years, Pieces

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• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

  David Sedaris

  Insightful, Changed, Decided

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• I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

  David Byrne

  Song, Believe, Design

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