Patterns Quotes - Page 33

• Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.

  Colleen Houck

  Waiting, Twists, Watches

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• When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Memories, Stronger, Original Thought

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Domestic Violence, Next Steps, Finals

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dream, Color, Drawing

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• No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Learning, Hatred

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• Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Everyday Positive Thinking: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.422, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Animal, Conspiracy, Theory

  "God's Still Dead" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 20, 2007.

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• Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Causes, Plot

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

  James Cameron

  Writing, Air, Ideas

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• The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Particular, Unwilling

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

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• Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

  Fritjof Capra

  Understanding

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, What If, Illusion Of Control

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• Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Quilts, Helping Others, Together

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.357, Crown Business

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• There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Years, Differences

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• When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.

  Milford Zornes

  Teaching, Dark, Keys

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• Energy moves in waves.
  Waves move in patterns.
  Patterns move in rhythms.
  A human being is just that
  energy, waves, patterns, rhythms.
  Nothing more. Nothing less.
  A dance.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Energy, Wave

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• Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Long, Broken

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• With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

  Hortense Odlum

  Integrity, Climbing, Way

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• It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Men, Risk

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• I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different than someone sitting at the computer clicking through a bunch of different books or CDs-until I actually looked at the data, and it turned out that the patterns were remarkably similar.

  Peter Fader

  Book, Data, Cds

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• Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Culture Religion, Profound

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• The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Law, Creation

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Cells, Law

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 64, 1983.

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