Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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