Messiness Quotes

• I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

  Brad Pitt

  Beautiful, Embrace

  "Brad Pitt breaks his silence" by Gary Susman, ew.com. May 12, 2005.

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• The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  Ellen Ullman

  Program, Programmers

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents”, p.24, Pushkin Press

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• He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

  J. D. Salinger

  Arrangements

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

  Timothy Egan

  Creativity, Insanity, Serendipity

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• Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

  Hugh Mackay

  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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

  Sark

  Letting Go, Practice, Perfection

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• Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

  Russell Westbrook

  Moving, House, Needs

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

  Timothy Keller

  People, Messy

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• . . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mean, May

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• I made a creativity out of that messiness.

  Marc Almond

  Creativity, Made

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Simplicity, Kind, Physics

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.154, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cost, Becoming, Welcome

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• 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

  Yoga, Meditation, Joy

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• 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

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Kids, Personality, Matter

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stories, Deep Within, Neat

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• I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

  Morgan Parker

  Song, Moving, Artist

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Real, Animal, Giving

  "Scientist: Social Networking Sites Harming Kids Brains", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2009.

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

  Richard Davidson

  Thinking, Focus, Modern Life

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• 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

  Book, Loss, Safety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

  Colm Toibin

  Thinking, Play, Fiction

  Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Mean, California, Safety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about 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, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

  Robin Hobb

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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• 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

  Revenge, Community, Goats

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