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)
- Bottom line is, if you do not use it or need it, it’s clutter, and it needs to go.--Charisse Ward
- Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.--Barbara Hemphill
- Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination.--Christina Scalise (Organize Your Life and More)
- Creative minds are rarely tidy.--John William Gardner (Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society)
- Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.--H. G. Wells
- The desire for order is the only order in the world.--Georges Duhamel (The Pasquier Chronicles)
- 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
- First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.--Napoleon Hill
- For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.--Benjamin Franklin
- 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 gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.--Sandra Hochman
- I see something that has to be done and I organize it.--Elinor Guggenheimer
- An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.--Scott Belsky (Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality)
- 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
- The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.--Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
- 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)
- Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is your values, goals and high leverage activities, organize around them.--Stephen Covey
- 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
- Organize your life around your dreams - and watch them come true.--Unknown
- 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
- A place for everything and everything in its place.--Mrs. Beeton (The Book of Household Management, 1861)
- 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
- More than skill or technique, individual and organizational quality is a function of aligning both personal character and personal behavior with principles.--Stephen R. Covey (First Things First)
- Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.--Paul Wellstone
- To know where one is going and what one wishes – this is order ... to organize one’s life to distribute one’s time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.--Henri F. Amiel
- 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)
- When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings… As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.--Anais Nin
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