Quotes About Organization

Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

Modularity permits the efficient discrimination of context.

The therapist must become active and directive in helping the patient reorganize his life. Contrary to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapists, the ADD therapist must offer concrete suggestions concerning ways of getting organized, staying focused, making

Structure is the vessel needed to contain the mercury of the ADD mind, to keep it from being here and there and everywhere all at once. Structure allows the ADD mind to be put to best use, rather than dissipating itself like so many tiny beads of mercury on the floor.

These examples reflect the stuff adult ADD is made of. Peter's piles are particularly emblematic. So many adults with ADD have piles, little mess-piles, big mess-piles, piles everywhere. They are like a by-product of the brain's work. What other people somehow put away, people with ADD put into piles.

As one task is put off, another is taken up. By the end of the day, or week, or year, countless projects have been undertaken, while few have found completion.

Difficulty getting organized. A major problem for most adults with ADD. Without the structure of school, without parents around to get things organized for him or her, the adult may stagger under the organizational demands of everyday life. The supposed "little things" may mount up to create huge obstacles. For the want of a proverbial nail—a missed appointment, a lost check, a forgotten deadline—their kingdom may be lost.

While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Especially in a small organization, it was important that everyone work well together. As I was unable to tell from an interview how a new hire would mesh with our corporate culture, I told everyone that they were temporary for the first six months, as were we for them. Sometime during that period, if we mutually agreed, they would become regular employees.

Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.