The brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it. James Gleick
All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear, anger, love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.
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Kirsten Miller
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. <span...
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Margaret Atwood
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
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Amelia AtwaterRhodes
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By James Gleick
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know–and that means there’s money available for it. That problem is very much within the realm of physics and it’s a problem very much...
Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].
The library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.” As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle...
