Chaos Quotes - Page 37

• The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Block, Cities, Two

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• When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.

  Ann Mortifee

  Unique, Journey, Expression

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• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Cities, Years

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

  George Santayana

  Bottom

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then-whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.

  James Michael

  Hard Work, Thinking, Axes

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• Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Emotional, Gutters

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Ears, Tvs

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• The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

  Daniel S. Loeb

  Opportunity, Investing, Financial

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• If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Peace, Heart

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 24, 2010

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• There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Confusion, Waste, Appearance

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• What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Omnipotence, Effort

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• The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Children, Victim, Social

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• We do not want chaos in South Africa.

  P. W. Botha

  Want, South, South Africa

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Order, Demon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

  Jane Garmey

  Creativity, Mean, Garden

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• What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga) caused a lot of chaos in the organization. I didn't feel like we were moving in the right direction.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Moving, Should Have

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• Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Peace, War, Impossible

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• leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Fashion, Ideas

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Order, Interconnected

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Devil, Vanishing

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• As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Freedom, Responsibility

  "Graham rebukes Paul on vaccines" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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