Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

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

Better never than late.

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.

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

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

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

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.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

CEOs must master three essential attributes, realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. One's capacity in each determines their ability to cope with today's business environment.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

Chickens are a symbol of chaos. Wherever you stick a chicken, unless it's a chicken farm, it's just chaos.

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

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.