(363 quotes found)
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant 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. There is only the inevitable.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
William Shakespeare
“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star.”
Wilfred Peterson
“To understand is to perceive patterns”
Isaiah Berlin
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.”
Marshall McLuhan
“The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.”
Ruth Benedict
“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
““There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.””
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."”
Demetri Martin
