Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

Change never bothers me, not really.

You take it very seriously when you start any project, but not everything in life ends up where you think it's going to be.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.