#pattern

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bin #blood #bullet #ceiling #could

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#creativity #different #different way #established #involves

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#i #i do #i think #impossible #justify

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

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

#comet #created #drought #every #explain

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#drape #ever #formal #had #i

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#duke ellington #ellington #famous #harmonic #original

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#big #big time #disrupt #down #every

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#directly #fragile #humanity #infinitely #inherited

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. ↗

— Robert Graves

#different #different colors #experiences #gets #heart