Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
Michael ShermerTags: storytelling patterns perceptions
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't 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.
Tags: history history-repeating-itself chaos patterns
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony HillermanTags: rain weather patterns order randomness officer-jim-chee
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.
Steven PinkerTags: thought patterns genes behavior temperments
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
Jacqueline CareyTags: math patterns behavior slow
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
Jacqueline CareyTags: life patterns circle theme
We make patterns, we share moments.
Jenny DownhamAmerica's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.
Orson Scott CardTags: truth lies patterns governement lockstep
I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.
Mary BaloghNo marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa KleypasTags: change marriage patterns
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