Words
of Wisdom on Chaos
In developing our seminars and keynote
presentations, we are fortunate to run across many words of wisdom.
If you need a refreshing thought, idea, slogan, or profound nugget for
an upcoming meeting, presentation, or lunch room bulletin board, take
a look at the following words of wisdom on chaos.
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Thoughts on Chaos
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist.
Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
~ Frank Herbert, science fiction author
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~ Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in
the midst of order is.
~ Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer,
musician, and composer
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is
chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~ Septima Clark, American educator and civil rights activist
Chaos furnishes the building blocks for order, and order
breaks down to replenish chaos.
~ Betty Brooks, author
Chaos is everywhere—and artists, to fashion art and
live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted quest right
into the studio.
~ Eric Maisel, author
The urban world is full of chaotic compositions that seem
to make sense in a way that earlier decades and centuries could never
have imagined.
~ Nicoletta Baumeister, artist
Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but
only in still water.
Chuang Tzu, philosopher
Chaos results when the world changes faster than people.
~ Unknown
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
~ James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be
change.
~ I Ching, Chinese classic text
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
~ M.C. Escher, famous graphic artist
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to
occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are
likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways
or truer answers.
~ M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and best-selling author
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner
will be one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte, French general, politician and emperor
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows
the opportunity for creativity and growth.
~ Tom Barrett, an American politician
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it
was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it!
~ Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the
place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, author
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just
behind a facade of order—and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an
even eerier type of order.
~ Douglas Hostadter, author
Chaos furnishes the building blocks of order, and order
breaks down to replenish chaos.
~ Betty Brooks, author
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