Patterns Quotes - Page 5

• There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Real, Emotion, Individualism

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• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, Apology

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Artist, Advice, Creative

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

  Manuel Puig

  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

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• A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Environmental, Lifestyle, Consumption

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• The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

  Robert Creeley

  Want, Narrative, Ends

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Uprising, Christian Inspirational, Literature

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  Xunzi

  Heart, Order, Desire

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• I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

  Merton Miller

  Data, Class, Students

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Character, Habit

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others

  Morton Feldman

  Interesting, Procedures, Aspect

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Spirit, Illness

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• Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

  Ronald Graham

  Art, Space, Sometimes

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• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

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• I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

  Will Smith

  Heart, Trying, Looks

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Brock Yates

  Confused, Confusion, Car

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  Wendy O. Williams

  Hate, People, Bored

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

  Danny Elfman

  Guy, Needs, Laying Down

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• By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

  Glenn Miller

  Successful, Color, Creating

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• 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.

  Josiah Royce

  People, Feelings, World

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• I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

  Anne Stevenson

  Believe, Order, Useless

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• I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

  Bill Kurtis

  Years, Different, Use

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• The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  George Stigler

  Competition, Challenges, Citizens

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

  Fred Ward

  Fun, Play, Guy

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