Pattern Quotes

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster

Destiny, Word, Fancy

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
Anne Hathaway

Good, Thought, Until

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

Art, Experience, Enjoyment

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp

Life, Success, Following

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
James Buchan

Money, Through, Universe

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
Karen Armstrong

Life, Human, Place

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Same, Days, Follow

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley

Society, Fire, Able

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
Christopher Alexander

Same, Short, Exist

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig

Follow, Advantage, Fantasy

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.
Emma Roberts

Try, Wear, Heavy

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
Ron Perlman

Life, Age, Time

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
Little Richard

Idea, Accepted, Blueprint

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.
Nicole Richie

Life, Try, Since

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

Impossible, Justify, Labeling

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman

Others, Another, Takes

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Gregory Bateson

Single, Impossible, Principle

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.
Gregory Bateson

Strong, Energy, Wrong

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

Heart, Different, Same

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
Andrew Motion

Time, Great, Poetry

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
Nikki Sixx

Music, Passion, Addiction

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
Roger Bannister

Music, Age, Career

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
John Strachan

Left, Hearts, Gentleness

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
Jared Diamond

History, Human, Different

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.
Kenny Loggins

Change, Old, Quite

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
James Cameron

Almost, Films, Influenced

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
A. J. Liebling

Life, Beauty, Christmas

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.
John Hume

Days, Quite, General

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

Making, Taught, Okay

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