Quotes About Organization

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Running the country is like running one big business.

When you go into a new city, or any city that you play for, the community is a big part of every organization.

The Bills gave me my first opportunity. In my mind, I'll be forever grateful for that organization.

I have to look after my life, my kids, their school, their doctor, my house, my phone and electric bills.

The UFC has a great plan for us. I'm just happy I'm employed by them and can pay my house bills and everything.

It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

Never index your own book.

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

You want to go No. 1. But you also want to go to a great organization that is committed to winning. Committed to winning Super Bowls.

As a kid, that's what you dream of: going to an organization and being that guy, turning the program around, organization around, winning Super Bowls.

My house is filled with boxes of books.

My husband always makes me go through what I'm not wearing and donate it, so the driveway is full of boxes.

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all: to be a contributor to the success of an organization that he was a player that brought a certain amount of success.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.