Patterning Activities Quotes & Sayings

Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole. — Maria Edgeworth

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices. — John Barrowman

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him. — Laura Kreitzer

Surround yourself with what matters. — H. L. Balcomb

Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes. — Ellen Ullman

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it. — Stephan Jenkins

Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words. — Philip Toshio Sudo

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me. — Oliver Harris

Emilia hooked her arm through mine, like we were the best of friends. "You solve problems," she said again. "I have a problem. Ergo . . . — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell

One may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids. — Lee Iacocca

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men. — Henny Youngman

I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life. — Wilkie Collins

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken. — Jacob Needleman