#patterns

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#math #patterns #science #sometimes

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#called #controlling #juggling #patterns #sometimes

When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#impressions #patterns #equality

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#band #body #doing #garage #hear

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#capable #deep #discover #first #generating

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#declines #demand #employment #expenditures #food

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#development #emotional #fabrics #figuring #growing

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