Quotes tagged ‘Chaos’

(74 total)

“I scarcely know where to begin, but love is always a safe place.”

“Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”

“We have lost touch with chaos because it is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, the ego. The ego’s existence is defined in terms of control. The endless modeling process that the ego carries out is an effort to fight the absence of closure. The ego wants closure. It wants a complete expla…”

— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, amazon.com

“Chaos is defined not so much by its disorder as by the infinite speed with which every form taking shape in it vanishes. It is a void that is not a nothingness but a virtual, containing all possible particles and drawing out all possible forms, which spring up only to disappear immediately.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com

“It is well known that rhythm is not meter or cadence, even irregular meter or cadence: there is nothing less rhythmic than a military march.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com

“Rhythm is the milieus' answer to chaos.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com

“From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. This is the concern of very ancient cosmogonies. Chaos is not without its own directional compo-nents, which are its own ecstasies. We have seen elsewhere how all kinds of milieus, each defined by a component, slide in relation to one another, over one anoth…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com

“Sometimes chaos is an immense black hole in which one endeavors to fix a fragile point as a center. Sometimes one organizes around that point a calm and stable "pace" (rather than a form): the black hole has become a home. Sometimes one grafts onto that pace a breakaway from the black hole.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com

“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”

— Po Bronson, amazon.com

“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”

— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com

“But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself ; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turns a mind into a tool. With a grip on the slippery, aimless activity of self-aware…”

— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com

“If you want to succeed you've got to be okay to just lose control.”

— Alexis Ohanian, ted.com

“...when things happened without any discernable context; when there were no recognizable patterns; when it was all incoherent; when isolated, disjointed events would take place only to be engulfed by an opaque black void, their relative meaning, their significance, annulled by the eons of entropic s…”

— Mark Leyner, amazon.com

“Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying.”

— The Joker, amazon.com