Chaos Quotes - Page 36

• SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sap, Oracles, Becoming

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• We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Able, Harness, Form

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• Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
  And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
  Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
  One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Lines, Taste, Fit

  Alexander Pope (1711). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.18

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• When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

  Monica Crowley

  Wise, Evil, World

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• The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

  Christiana Figueres

  Business, Weather, Records Breaking

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

  Andrew Pyper

  Dark, Desire, Needs

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• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, World, Steps

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

  Linda Jones

  Running, Jobs, Sunday

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• When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.

  Charley Harper

  Lying, Artist, Color

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Real, Aggravation

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

  Francine Rivers

  Height, Depth, Mercy

  Francine Rivers (2001). “Unspoken: Bathsheba”, p.147, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

  Billy Collins

  Form, Aspect, Whole

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• All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

  Dieter Rams

  Depressing, Men, Ugly

  "Bring on the butlers" by Stephen Bayley, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2007.

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• Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

  Troy Polamalu

  Crazy, Reality, World

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• We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

  Ishmael Beah

  Moving, Joy, Radiance

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• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  Walter Legge

  Art, People, Achievement

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• There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

  E. M. Forster

  Victory, Aristocracy, Tradition

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• Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

  Theodore Millon

  Party, Circles, Point Break

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• I personally think that most people, most of the time, do the right thing. I just believe this. Otherwise, the world would be chaos, and it's not.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.

  Gerard Way

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.bleedingcool.com

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• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Art, Struggle, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Civilization

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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