Martin Sorrell Quotes

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Thinking differently is my strength.

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

I don't [believe in God]. I have a problem with religion or anything else that says, 'We have all the answers,' because there's no such thing as 'the answers.' We're complex. We change our minds on issues all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.