Patterns Quotes - Page 28

• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.

  Luci Shaw

  Teacher, Healing, Artist

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• A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

  Martin Fowler

  Ideas, Practicals, Has Beens

  Martin Fowler (1997). “Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models”, p.8, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

  Vincent Canby

  Technology, Color, Shapes

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• One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Good Day, Fighting, Thinking

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• Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Fundamentals, Demand, Century

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• When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.

  Colin S. Smith

  Moving, Discovery, Self

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• After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.

  Jeremy Silman

  Player, Talking, Ideas

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• Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

  Wayne Shorter

  Music, Clouds, Jazz

  Twitter post from May 15, 2017

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• What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

  Lynn Steen

  Knowledge, Math, Logic

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.

  Ronald Graham

  Education, Fun, Math

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

  John Negroponte

  Mistake, Lying, Editing

  "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Earth, Unions

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• By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Live In The Moment, Mind, Resistance

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents; maybe it reflected how much the circumstances had changed on the ground.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Strong, Taken, President

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

  Gustav Nossal

  Years, Mosaics, Good Work

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• Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Parent, Prostitution

  Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.66, The Overlook Press

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• Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
  Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
  consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Lying, Adventure, Usual

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• By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Stress, Healing

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Openness mind”, Dharma Pub

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, 'It's okay, I'm from New Jersey.' I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in 'Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.'

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Feet, Wife

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

  Anthony Storr

  Imagination, Missing, Desire

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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