Patterns Quotes - Page 7

• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Knowing, Balance, Matter

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

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• The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

  Erich Gamma

  Design, Use, Produce

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• Successful people follow successful patterns.

  Sterling W Sill

  Success, People, Successful

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• You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Principles, Accepting, Used

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• The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

  Donald Curtis

  Action, Planning, Structure

  "Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life".

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• Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

  Tony Dungy

  Legacy, Purpose, Life Is

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  W. G. Sebald

  Writing, Giving, Possibility

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• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  George Eliot

  Conscience

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6056, Delphi Classics

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• A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wise, Mean, Men

  "The Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book 1 Ch. 25; translation by George Stanhope, c. 1418.

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• The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

  Diane Ackerman

  Meaningful, Reality, Tears

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.14, Vintage

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• Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Memories, Balance, Stories

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• Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Trying, Way, Facts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.

  Jonathon Keats

  May, Buckminster Fuller, Recognition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Law, Needs, Description

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

  Cathy O'Neil

  People, Giving, Too Much Power

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Algorithms, Arguing, Kind

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Growing Up, Clothes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns are put into place, and certain behaviors keep getting repeated.

  James Redford

  Thinking, Poverty, Behavior

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Long

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• Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Loneliness, Self Esteem, Ambition

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Children, School

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.

  Roger Housden

  Unique, Special

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.

  Roger Housden

  Morning, Couple, Book

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

  Jimmy Page

  Knows, I Can

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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