Chaotic Quotes - Page 7

• As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

  Kalup Linzy

  Artist, People, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's this progress, incredible progress of technology, everything is figured out, everything is known, everything is systematic and under control, communication is going on, but still there is such a great portion of life that we have utterly no control over. It's completely chaotic. Something could happen overnight.

  Michal Rovner

  Communication, Technology, Progress

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When you have creative people, you have to let them do their thing. You have to resist the urge to be too efficient, you have to resist the urge to work to a certain budget and schedule - other than the fact that things have to end. It's harder work to produce this way but my philosophy is that you have to let it be creatively chaotic and let it find its place. When creative people are on to something, you know it and you have to allow it to happen. You can't set a schedule for that.

  Brad Lewis

  Philosophy, People, Creative

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• But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Numbers, Looks, World

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• Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

  Caroline Knapp

  Smooth, Secretive

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.11, Dial Press

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• My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.

  Geoff Johns

  Moving, Fall, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.
  But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay.
  Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay.
  However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Opportunity, Creative, Liberty

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf.

  Sarah Hyland

  Thinking, Blood, Realizing

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• The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Creating, Ideas, Long

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.

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• The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Fashion, Railroads, Cost

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 186), 1968.

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• When things get too chaotic, I need to roam.

  Nathan Parsons

  Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

  Tom Angleberger

  School, Superhero, Library

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• Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, Usa, America

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• And with a weak president, we have got a chaotic world. Donald Trump is going to come in. He's going to provide strong leadership. His positions are going to be very clear. And with that clarity, it is going to become a safer world.

  Paul J. Manafort

  Strong, President, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

  Randall Cobb

  College, Goal, Different

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think that Republican analyst Steve Schmidt had a great line about Donald Trump, which is, Americans clearly voted for change , but they didn't vote for chaos. I think people are feeling unnerved all around the world, because they see a chaotic set of directions coming out of the White House, and they're not sure what it all means.

  Wendy Sherman

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would like to have people hear dissonance, but I don't want it to be so off-putting that they never get there to begin with. That's actually how I hear it; that's what's pleasant to me. I don't like dense, chaotic dissonance. My brain gets lost. I need something to hang onto.

  Patricia Barber

  People, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you're going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It's the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for - I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There's always going to be those people. It just depends on what they're called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.

  Bjork

  People, Internet, Very Good

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• When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mother, Being Yourself, Father

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.25, Granta Books

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• Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Long, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Reality, Law

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• Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Order, Kind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.100, Counterpoint Press

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