Edwin Catmull Quotes

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

I do not have a very peaceful life.

Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

She carries chaos like an overcoat.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

I'm all over the place.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

No violent extreme endures.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

I live in a crazy time.