#patterns

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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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

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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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