Quotation Explorer - 'Disorder'

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. - Confucius
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. - Peter Drucker
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness. - Vironika Tugaleva
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. - Wallace Stevens
Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. - Carla H. Krueger
Life is a balanced equation,Don't try to disorder the balance - Mohammed Sekouty
The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision - James A. Chu
A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. - Onyi Anyado
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. - Maurice Wilkins
For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself. - Thomas Mann
There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it run its course; it will then disappear on its own. - Baltasar Gracián
The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability. - Sarah Newton
A substantial minority of DID patients report sadistic, exploitive, and coercive abuse at the hands of organized groups. Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision - James A. Chu
LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. - Ambrose Bierce
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. - James Baldwin
Same thing now; my freedom had to be paired with availability, or else it became a disorder. - Sophie Fontanel
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. - Hesiod
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. - William Shakespeare
Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder.I am not afraid nor am I disappointed with it; if this is what God Almighty want me to have; I will make sure that I will make good use of this disorder; and, be the best person that I can be. - Temitope Owosela
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure! - Ramana Pemmaraju
The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails. - Christopher Marshall
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. - Phyllis Diller
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment - Kurt Vonnegut
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. - Yohji Yamamoto
OCDD -- Overwhelming Crap and Debris Disorder -- runs deep. - Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Asshole Proximity Disorder - Stefan Molyneux
Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family. - St. Angela Merici
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. - Michel de Montaigne
victimnoun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior. - Shannon L. Alder
There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it runs its course; it will then disappear on its own. - Baltasar Gracián
I think religion is a neurological disorder. - Bill Maher
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