It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.William Lane CraigChancePattern Share this
A pattern is either right or wrong…it is no stronger than its weakest point.William MorrisPatternStrength Share this
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.Frank HerbertChildhoodInfluencePattern Share this
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.Fritjof CapraPatternUnderstanding Share this
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.Fritjof CapraEnergyPattern Share this
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.Melvyn BraggComplexityPatternReflection Share this
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.Michael GerberOrderPatternVision Share this
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.Lynn SteenMathematicsPattern Share this
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times.Gay HendricksCommunicationPatternRelationship Share this
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.Warren BuffettIgnorancePatternRepetition Share this
Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.Jake BuseyBehaviorPatternUnpredictability Share this
Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.Graeme BaseArtistryJourneyPattern Share this
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.Gregory BatesonComplexityExplanationPattern Share this
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.James GleickPattern Share this
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.James MonroeConflictPattern Share this
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.Jay MaiselInterestPattern Share this
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.Alan WattsPatternSpaceTime Share this
The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.Lawrence S. KubieBehaviorIllnessPattern Share this
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.Jojo MoyesCyclePatternPurpose Share this
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.Jiddu KrishnamurtiNonconformityOrderPattern Share this
As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.Jiddu KrishnamurtiCreationPattern Share this
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.Andrei TarkovskyConformityObservationPattern Share this
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.Marshall McLuhanMetaphorPatternSpeech Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity