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It's kind of like the patterns we see in mid- to late March.

It's a huge boost to someone trying to overcome patterns of self-destructive behavior.

I tried to pick up some speech patterns from a couple of different Presidents, but other than that, I just wanted to play the role believable.

It's a product of itself based on Web services standards, built on top of WebSphere Application Server, ... We've always viewed ESB as a set of patterns and we still do. What we are hearing from the customers is there are certain patterns they like to see brought together and the WebSphere ESB handles that Web services open pattern.

The observation of strange or interesting patterns is not nearly as unusual as people think.

That means that there are no simple, across-the-board solutions for addressing health disparities. Instead, solutions must be sensitive to the different patterns of health risk that emerge across population groups as adolescents enter young adulthood.

Every bit of information we got directly from them or through articles has patterns of student behavior that indicate when you're doing this drug testing, the use of drugs goes down.

It's still too early. We just don't have the patterns yet.

They have done some really good things, mixed their pitchers or patterns up. I think no matter how good you pitch, we've got so many weapons, there's a way for us to break through and we haven't.

It's just the way the large-scale atmospheric patterns have set up.

You may discover patterns over time to find out what that person is up to.

You have to look for heavy patterns. You just don't do it. Once you see the heavy patterns you go with it. When a guy hits a single to left when he normally hits a ball 13 rows up, I'll take the single to left.

What's unusual is you're talking six weeks where the pattern was essentially fixed. Blocking patterns happen pretty much every year in the Pacific but six weeks is a long time.

It was spending patterns of the state historically during 10 years of unprecedented economic prosperity. States began simply to assume that economic growth was going to continue in perpetuity. So part of it was realigning state spending to be much more realistic, to understand the reality of the economic cycle. But here in the state of New Jersey, we confronted the realities of the national economy. Income tax revenues are down 13 percent,

To a certain degree, whether to evacuate would amount to a personal decision. Unfortunately, with wind patterns around Cook Inlet, it may not serve a good purpose to evacuate to Anchorage or to the Mat-Su Valley.

We want to establish their behavioral patterns before they have Internet technology. Then we can see what happens after they get wired. We can see how their lives and household habits change.

It's going to be a great season for traditional textures and patterns -- most of them from England and Scotland,

It looks okay to me. It cleans up a few feeder patterns and cleans up geography.

There were patterns we didn't run correctly and our execution was uncharacteristic in the first half, ... Our running game wasn't executing well. It was an all-around deal where we didn't execute well.

This is truly a synthetic work. Our detection of global patterns required the simultaneous analysis of many studies conducted independently by plant ecologists all over the world.

If consumers go hoping that the price is coming down immediately on Monday, they're probably not going to see that. If the prior patterns of price lags hold true, then they may not see it happening immediately at the beginning of the week.

He's got a knack for catching the football, whenever it's throw in his direction. He also runs really intelligent patterns and pays attention to detail.

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.

I don't see a return to your normal rainfall patterns until sometime after the first, probably mid-January.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Because I was studying these kinds of movies so carefully, I realized how obvious their basic structure is, so I decided to reverse it. When you're playing with very known patterns of narrative events, you just have to twist one little thing, and it suddenly becomes very original. It's kind of like what Alfred Hitchcock did in Psycho . There's a sadistic pleasure to watching an audience realize you've broken the rules and anything goes.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.

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 signal or noise

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.