Patterns quotes
585 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious."
"Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all."
"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness."
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"The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
"Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life."
"When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself."
"We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time."
"In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it."
"Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things."
"Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern."
"The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine."
"The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep us locked in inner conflict."
"We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now."
"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
"Be a pattern to others and then all will go well."
"We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain."
"One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough."
"Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will force, it can manifest according to the mental blueprint you have created."
"They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)"
"From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences."
"Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition."
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience."
"We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns."
