Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Organizing

Organizing

"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go till you come to the end; then stop."--Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.--H. G. Wells
Don't agonize. Organize.--Florence Kennedy
Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.--James Brown (Statement on national TV during the riots in Washington, DC, 1968)
Early in my career I felt that organization would destroy my creativity. Whereas now, I feel the opposite. Discipline is he concrete that allows you to be creative.--Verna Gibson
Good order is the foundation of all things.--Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France)
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.--Tryon Edwards
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.--Havelock Ellis
I see something that has to be done and I organize it.--Elinor Guggenheimer
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both "he" and "she," and I could write, "If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis," which would save a lot of trouble.--A. A. Milne (The Christopher Robin Birthday Book)
...in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.--Eda J. LeShan (The Conspiracy Against Childhood)
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.--Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams)
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.--Hesiod (Works and Days)
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religions and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is our only habitable one.--Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History)
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.--Eleanor Roosevelt
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.--G. K. Chesterton ("The Bluff of the Big Shops" Outline of Sanity)
One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.--Margo Kaufman (1-800-Am-I-Nuts?)
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.--Eliphas Levi
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.--Pearl S. Buck (To My Daughters, With Love)
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.--Louis Brandeis
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.--A.A. Milne
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.--Millicent Fenwick
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.--Arthur Helps
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being.--Anne Dillard (The Writing Life)
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.--Max Frisch
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.--Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little Town on the Prairie)
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.--Paul Davies (in The Quickening Universe by Mallove)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.--Denis Diderot (Supplement to Bougainville's "Voyage")
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. --M. C. Escher
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.--Margaret J. Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science)