Chaos Quotes - Page 35

• Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Law, Miracle

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.11, Penguin

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• Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

  Rob Zombie

  Couple, Singing, Band

  Interview with Rachael Mattice, rjmattice.wordpress.com. November 11, 2013.

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• There are people who like to work in chaos, and some people work better under that, and create that sort of chaos, but that makes a set not necessarily very fun. I like to work on sets that don't have that.

  George Clooney

  Fun, People

  "The Descendants - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Space, Phones, Oxygen

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• I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

  Mary Antin

  Art, Drama, Clouds

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• Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, Men, Careers

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.304, Basic Books

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• The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, World

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• The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feel Better, World

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• In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

  Edward Jenks

  Land, Law, Modern

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Catastrophe and creation are twins.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Creativity, Twins, Creation

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2010). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.150, New World Library

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• Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

  Kate Green

  Taken, Logic, Equal

  Kate Green (1993). “Shooting Star”, Harpercollins

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• A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.

  Vivian Gornick

  Strong, People, Understanding

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• I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Strong, Believe, Swings

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• Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Void, Lasts, Crawling

  H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.358, Boris Lariushin

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• One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.

  Robert M

  Home, Heart, One Day

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• chaos is the first step in the creative process.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Creativity, Creative, Firsts

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.148, Penguin

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

  Edward Tenner

  Use, Happens

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• Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

  Andrew Stanton

  Art, Needs, Messy

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Views, People

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