There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns
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JAMES GEARY

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

Mindful leaders know how to repeat success patterns and overcome failure patterns.
AMIT RAY We make patterns, we share moments.
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ALICE LICHTENSTEIN

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.
FRITJOF CAPRA

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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BRUCE LEE Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space...
RONALD GRAHAM Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside o...
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IFEREIMI TAWAKE Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die...
JILL LEPORE To understand is to perceive patterns.
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN To understand is to perceive patterns
ISAIAH BERLIN To understand is to perceive patterns.
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JONATHAN DAY Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.
BILL DORAN Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.
SARAH PARCAK We are seeing some mixing of patterns but it's usually in small doses, as an accent here and there i...
BETSY THOMPSON While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
ERIC ALTERMAN Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from p...
BRIAN L. WEISS The patterns are repeated over and over again, and they can go on for infinity. Just like day and ni...
FAHIMEH AMIRI I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Weather patterns can change. We need to be prepared for that.
BILL DORAN If rape or arson, poison or the knife
Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff
Of this d...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We envision being able to print (power plastics) in patterns ? to place them in the reoccurring patt...
DANIEL MCGAHN In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natu...
CARL SAGAN Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized i...
JONATHAN HAIDT A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent ...
G. H. HARDY A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent ...
G.H. HARDY The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a...
SHARON WEIL If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony ins...
DEAN KOONTZ When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
ANONYMOUS A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT We're not seeing really big bold patterns. We're seeing really delicate patterns, which really empha...
LEATRICE EISEMAN All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patte...
BRIAN GREENE A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanen...
G. H. HARDY A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more perman...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If there are people who are not reporting these crimes, we won't be able to pick up the crime patter...
BILLY JONES We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.
JENNY DOWNHAM Yes, I have patterns of love addiction.
But I'm a woman.
Of course I do.
EMMA FORREST It's kind of like the patterns we see in mid- to late March.
JOHN CANNON When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
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EMMA RICHLER The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confec...
ESPHYR SLOBODKINA Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
RONALD GRAHAM Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
ALVIN TOFFLER When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.
TULI KUPFERBERG What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the pa...
BRIAN GREENE We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-de...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA We've been putting on the show at the library almost since we started hooking, and it seems to be ap...
JUNE MYLES Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real...
GARY ZUKAV I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
ELIZABETH MOON Some of his patterns come in legal and some come in illegal.
DON WADDELL We did a really good job with our patterns out of the back. We didn't do very much with the ball out...
STEVE JENNINGS Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...
MICHAEL SHERMER patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.
BRIAN GIBSON Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where n...
LEONARD SHLAIN The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN There is no doubt that right-hemisphere intuitive thinking may perceive patterns and connections too...
CARL SAGAN Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosai...
ARNE GLIMCHER Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different w...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard lo...
ADA LOVELACE What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a ...
DAVID MCCANDLESS Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - re...
JACK DANGERMOND The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...
DIANA GABALDON Large patterns can be very vulgar and very 1950s.
DONALD RICHARDSON Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not aff...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns...
JILL LEPORE Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know
ERIC ALLENBAUGH We're not going to do the details environmental analysis, but are there any obvious, major pitfalls?...
PAUL MULLEN When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and a...
JACK KORNFIELD If we ever travel far in the universe to another planet with intelligent life, let's just make patte...
ANONYMOUS Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
JOYCE MEYER From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portra...
ANNA TURLEY Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be ...
DARA HORN I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
LAWRENCE WELK The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
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J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was m...
J.K. ROWLING It's not like putting a person into space, but we do use technology to allow us to look for patterns...
ED MORAN Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.
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JOSEPH REED There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of ...
JACQUELINE CAREY You're seeing a big shift in the spending patterns of consumers.
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CHRIS HANSEN In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the pat...
ALAN STERN If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or...
STEPHEN POTTER Wildflowers don't grow haphazardly us we are led to believe. They grow in fantastic patterns which a...
ANTHONY T.HNICKS I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
DANNY ELFMAN The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the ...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you dont know what you want, you end up with a lot you dont
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Theres always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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