Chaos Quotes - Page 19

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

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

No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.

By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.