#pattern

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#day-to-day #escape #explanation #freedom #future

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#developing #different #different directions #directions #each

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #life #patterns #inspirational

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension. ↗

— Peter Watts

#intelligence #pattern-matching #equality

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#perceptions #storytelling #perception

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. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#history #history-repeating-itself #patterns #free

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

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. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

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