Quotes About Chaos And Creativity

#1. I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

Woody Harrelson

#2. Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

Russell L. Ackoff

#3. The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Richard Holbrooke

#4. Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

Bertrand Russell

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

Charles Handy

#6. Chaos is the first step in the creative process.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#7. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

#8. I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

Charlotte Eriksson

#9. You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Philippa Perry

#11. I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don't even have anything to offer myself.

Haruki Murakami

#12. What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Tom Barrett

#14. What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

Anne Holt

#15. We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and "unfold" creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development.

Timothy Keller

#16. What is that unforgettable line?

Samuel Beckett

#17. At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!

Dwight L. Moody

#18. You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else's. Respect it. Pay attention to it. Let it inspire curious ponderings and original thinking.

David Sturt

#19. It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

#20. The reflection of chaos is creativity.

Lionel Suggs

#21. When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#22. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

Danny Gregory

#23. I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

Donald Trump

#24. Was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.

Simon Winchester

#25. You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".

Leanne Pooley

#26. In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

David Neeleman

#27. It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Derek Thompson

#28. Order and creativity are complementary.

Lewis Mumford

#29. Catastrophe and creation are twins.

Barbara Marx Hubbard