Finding Patterns Quotes

#1. Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

Thomas M. Disch

#2. Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Michael Shermer

#3. Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Paul Lockhart

#4. Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

Dennis Prager

#5. Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.

Nate Silver

#6. Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Michael Shermer

#7. Testing trading ideas is like digging for gold or looking for crude oil in deep waters. The more trading ideas you test, the better your chances of finding patterns that can be traded profitably.

Henrique M. Simoes

#8. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Allen

#9. Lost in the impossible pleasure of finding that soul and body that fits up perfectly to yours, lost in the starburst patterns that wait behind their eyelids when all that matters is that they are both here, now, for as long as they can be.

Kay Simone

#10. You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Janet Suzman

#11. Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Henry Norris Russell

#12. Let some things remain mysterious.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#14. I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.

Taylor Rhodes

#15. I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Morgan Freeman

#16. Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#17. Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

#18. I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

Georgia Salpa

#19. I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.

Amy Tan

#20. That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#21. Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Howard Rheingold

#22. My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

Val Kilmer

#23. There's no such things as travel insurance when it comes to reading.

Maureen Corrigan

#24. One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible.

Eileen Cook

#25. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

Agnes Denes

#27. Patternicity is the idea that humans are really talented at finding nonexistent patterns in random noise.

A. J. Jacobs

#28. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Mary Doria Russell

#29. What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

David McCandless