#patterns

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

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#math #patterns #slow #math

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#order #patterns #rain #randomness #weather

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

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

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#dramatic #effects #getting #like #off

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

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#historical #i #i see #lot #nation