Quotes About Messiness

#1. messiness stimulates creative thought.

Eric Weiner

#2. Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

Timothy Keller

#4. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She

Robin Hobb

#6. I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

Richard Davidson

#7. The messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#8. Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Bill Bryson

#9. I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.

Sarah Silverman

#10. He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

J.D. Salinger

#11. I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.

Tiffani Thiessen

#12. There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

SARK

#13. California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm still trying to figure out what to do with. I mean, when it comes to the themes, this is nothing like an Atwood novel.

Edan Lepucki

#14. When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

#15. Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

Jack Kornfield

#17. The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

Edan Lepucki

#18. Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community.. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

Bill Peterson

#19. God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

David Plotz

#20. I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination.

Colm Toibin

#21. Dearest Amabot,
If you only had a heart to absorb our hatred...
Thanks for nothing, you jury-rigged rust bucket.
The gorgeous messiness of flesh and blood with prevail!

Brad Stone

#22. Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which 'the law' was founded.

Robert Partridge

#23. Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Roz Chast

#24. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#25. Don't get distracted by the messiness. Keep pushing toward a CPM.

Steve Smith

#26. Thorne's voice pitched high in imitation of the queen. The impostor of my beloved niece is vanquished ... Let us put this messiness behind us while we go forward with the coronations ... I am a psychotic, power-hungry nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil.

Marissa Meyer

#27. Choosing life is always messy.

But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.

Mathew N. Schmalz

#28. Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

T. E. Hulme

#29. My love for math eventually became a passion. I went to math camp when I was fourteen and came home clutching a Rubik's Cube to my chest. Math provided a neat refuge from the messiness of the real world. It marched forward, its field of knowledge expanding relentlessly, proof by proof. And

Cathy O'Neil

#30. The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.

Elliot Perlman

#31. You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

Timothy Egan

#32. I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.

Tobin Wilson

#33. She couldn't help thinking of it as life after that, as if Julian were trying to bite into the bloody matter of his life, to cauterize the messiness somehow.

Cassandra Clare

#34. As a general rule, I didn't like guys who styled their hair like they just woke up. Messiness should never be a goal. It should be a consequence.

Veronica Rossi

#35. Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Rod Stryker

#36. I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually.

Brad Pitt

#37. The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.

Nick Bilton

#38. I made a creativity out of that messiness.

Marc Almond

#39. You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

Brian Greene

#40. If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

Alexander McCall Smith