“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
High Output Management
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
High Output Management
“Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences.
“In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
The last sentence of this quote is incised in marble on the wall of the United States House of Representatives chamber, directly behind the Speaker's chair (with the word "develop" spelled with a final "e").
Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)
Context: Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
“To break out of the chaos of my darkness
Into a lucid day is all my will.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"Darkness And Light"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: To break out of the chaos of my darkness
Into a lucid day is all my will.
My words like eyes in night, stare to reach
A centre for their light: and my acts thrown
To distant places by impatient violence
Yet lock together to mould a path of stone
Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
GMA News http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/154536/news/nation/palace-senators-lgus-to-switch-off-lights-on-earth-hour <br class="br">2009
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Margaret Wheatley (2006) " Leadership Lessons for The Real World http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/leadershiplessons.html". Leader to Leader Magazine, Summer 2006