I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Order provides the stabilities that we crave, but chaos creates the opportunities for change that we need. [...] Those who are waiting… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy… — John Ikerd Copy Share Image
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!' — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
“People today will have you believing life is a blank slate upon which you can write anything at all--this is poetic, even… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image