patterns quotes

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

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

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.