#patterns

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗

— Xun Zi

#conforms #desires #even #good #harm

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#marriage #patterns #change

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

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#itself #never #patterns #political #repeats

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

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#entire #fabric #her #longest #nature

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

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood