“Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.” WaySkillsChaosSeekingMindsetOne WayAmbiguity Author:Scott D. Anthony
“I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.” PeopleKnowsI CanTheoryInvolvedChaosPermacultureChaos Theory Author:Bill Mollison
“For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.” PeopleMindImportantHardBodyCarePlansChaosCome UpIllnessMental Illness Author:Linda Hamilton
“Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th century, Descartes applied this insight to cosmology, and long before Darwin presented his more rigorous ideas about variation and selection, people began to speculate more openly about the origins of life and the species in Epicurean terms.” PeopleLongIdeasOrderProcessTermCenturySpeciesChaosInsightAriseCombinationAtomsPersistSelectionVariationCosmologyUnstableOrigin Of Life17th CenturyEpicurean Author:Catherine Wilson
“It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan.” ImportantChaosIraqAlsAfghanistanIsisAl QaedaLibya Author:Jill Stein
“I found it was remarkable. It was so evocative. I feel like it captured the urgency and the chaos, but through the silence of it, through the slowness of it. That's what I loved the most about Citizenfour.” FeelsFoundSilenceChaosRemarkableCapturedUrgencySlowness Author:Zachary Quinto
“I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.” TryingDiesPleaseDemocratChaosAgentsPavementBipartisanship Author:Janeane Garofalo
“[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.” ThinkingCountryWould BeTrumpChaos Author:William Weld
“Freedom can flow from order. That is not to say that freedom always flows from order because you can have a totalitarian order and you can have an undemocratic order from which freedom will not flow, but that surest way to destroy freedom is to have chaos.” WayOrderFlowChaos Author:Pierre Trudeau
“His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.” BookLastsCommunityKingsDirectChaosSocialismAngleLutherBarbarism Author:Bill Ayers
“I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.” TryingRealActionChristianPlansHotChaosSchedulesSlipperyPests Author:Paul S. Kemp
“Sleep and meditation are key. Natural sleep for 8 hours will help remove toxins from the body, help consolidate memory, create order from chaos. Sleep activates good hormones that are associated with rejuvenation and slowing down the ageing process.” HelpingBodyOrderProcessHoursNaturalMemoriesSleepMeditationKeysChaosRemoveSlow DownAgeingHormonesSlowingActivateToxinsRejuvenation Author:Deepak Chopra
“Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.” ThinkingGovernmentCoursesCrazyChaosChinaMeaningfulIncapableBeing Crazy Author:Ai Weiwei
“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.” SecurityAnxietyChaosPerpetualAnxiety And Fear Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.” MeanBigsTogetherSecurityAnxietySlaveryChaosAwfulGood LifePerpetualNeverthelessAnxiety And Fear Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.” ThinkingWorldDealsMiddleBattleChaosEastWorriedLiftsMiddle EastSanctionsIranianPersianShia Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksCareCausesViewsSonRight NowChaosDon't CareExperimentsI Don't CareCurseMy SonI CareCursed Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.” YearsBookLastsRememberBlackCommunityWhiteTalkingPossibilityKingsChaosDiscussionSupporterLutherAssassinationEmergenceBlack PowerMixtapes Author:Danny Glover
“You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.” PlansCreatingChaosRecipes Author:David Brooks
“Chickens are a symbol of chaos. Wherever you stick a chicken, unless it's a chicken farm, it's just chaos.” SticksChaosSymbolsChickensFarms Author:Ed Helms
“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.” WaySceneChaosGloriousChickensEmployedMuppet Author:Ed Helms
“Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick a fight with them. He will pick a fight with China, which would be truly cataclysmic.” Would BeFightingBehindsTrumpPicksChaosChinaGermanyMexicoWhirling Dervish Author:David Brooks
“A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.” WayMeanBehindsPolicyTheorySceneStrategyPressesChaosOpponentsBehind The ScenesChaos Theory Author:Jennifer Palmieri
“Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time are so deep and so beautifully articulate. And you realize, especially with the stuff that's going on now in America, that it's always been chaos - people were disagreeing at least as much as they are now and 20,000 people would die in a day. It's the scale that's amazing, and also the proximity to our own time.” PeopleYearsWarAmericaDiesTurnsReadingStuffRealizingFiveLettersChaosScalesCivil WarFive YearsProximity Author:George Saunders
“There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryDoneEvidenceChaosTerroristCommitAdministrationOffendedAirportsIncompetentBannedResidence Author:David Brooks
“I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.” WayKindLittlesDoeHappensBitsProcessStepsTrumpLittle BitCrisisSeriesChaosInternationalCongressRussiaAll KindsAdministrationRangeAmendmentsFrighteningScenariosConfrontationStep UpRemovalParalyzedSteeringImpeachment Author:David Frum
“China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world. They don't want war. They don't want to see protectionism. They don't want to see the world break out into various forms of chaos.” WorldWantWarFormInterestBreakChaosVariousChinaStableBreak OutProtectionism Author:Mitt Romney
“When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.” AbleRememberSacrificeExampleCapableHarderChaos Author:Timothy Treadwell
“America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.” IfsWorldYearsMayEndsDoneProblemHandsAmericaFacesTurnsGrowingMiddleExerciseConflictCapacityChaosWideEastAwakeningAddressesRegionsMiddle EastTestedSlidesExplosionsEquilibriumContributingSuperpowerImplicit Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.” MadeMistakeTrumpChaosManageMade A Mistake Author:Mark Shields
“Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad.” IfsMadeTodayChristianMillionsWorryChaosRegimesProtectedSyriaInterventionAssad Author:Rand Paul
“I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.” BelievePoliticalEvilI BelievePossibilityPeriodsChaosEntering Author:Cleve Jones
“The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.” YearsChaosSeekingDeeperConfusionTeenageTeenage YearsDeeper MeaningChaos And Confusion Author:Deepak Chopra
“How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.” PeopleWayDoeJoyWaitingRoomsGriefTeachMiddleHappeningsChaosMy WayGet BetterFishingWaiting Rooms Author:Rick Warren
“Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.” WritingDoeImportantMomentsReadingSkillsChaosWriting And ReadingSpecificity Author:George Saunders
“Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.” WantGivingMeanDoeMomentsYoungGrowsChanceTreeProtectChaosResistanceDisorderDelicateCrookedGive It A Chance Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.” MindHeartDoeRunningOrderUnderstandingQualityDiseaseEternalShadowConcernConcernedChaosNeglectDisorderHeart And Mind Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.” ArtWarMatterOrderBeliefNo Matter WhatChaosViolentIdeologyDestructiveJust War Author:Maxine Hong Kingston
“It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.” PeopleWorldWantHumansEndsCultureWishRaceMadChaosHuman RaceLoyalCreedsAbsurdityMaxMad Max Author:John Lydon
“There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.” IfsGivingFactsStoriesAbleOrderShapesStandingOppositesChaosSatisfyingStanding Out Author:Dani Shapiro
“What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.” RealityCertainOrderCan DoChaosCinemaDimensionsAesthetic Author:Elia Suleiman
“In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.” AbleTrainChaosMidstGifted Author:Russell Wilson
“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.” PeopleWorldSeemsConsciousnessThis WorldChaos Author:Anthony Kiedis
“People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.” GivingArtistSongChaosPresentingHunk Author:Peter O'Toole
“Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.” WritingTryingRealDifficultLongingChaosComplicatedReal LifeMy WayMake SenseWrestlingExploring Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
“I figure you give Donald trump two years to see if his approach works, the business rather than the political approach. You'll see at the end of two years if new jobs are being created, money flow comes back from overseas, all of that, the immigration chaos subsides. You got to give him two years, but I think I know what he's trying to do and you know we'll watch it.” ThinkingGivingTryingPoliticalChaosImmigrationNew Job Author:Bill O'Reilly
“The Donald Trump of Washington ends up being portrayed by all of these news stories that happen to be sourced by anonymous leakers. Every day in Washington at 5:30 there's a new bombshell in the Drive-By Media from an anonymous source once again informing us how incompetent, how ill-mannered, how ill-prepared, how in chaos, how out of touch Donald Trump is.” Chaos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“James Comey is gonna single-handedly get Donald Trump impeached. They can't wait. They're all beside themselves. They've got more leaks. Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus left Saudi Arabia, came back to the United States. The media says that's because they did something to make Trump mad, they're soon to be fired, both laid off, it's gotta happen, too much chaos. The administration says no, they were scheduled to come back after the big meetings that were in Riyadh, nothing to see here.” WaitingMadMeetingsChaos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.” PeopleFallEconomyViolenceChaosPrioritiesHungryPalestinianBreakdownFall BackInstabilityHamas Author:Hanan Ashrawi