Quotes About Organization

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.

Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

You may begin to realize that groups will pop up wherever symmetries exist. In fact, the collection of all the symmetry transformations of any system always from a group.

As we shall see throughout this book, the unifying powers of group theory are so colossal that historian of mathematics Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) once commented, When ever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

A la historia la organizan los historiadores; ellos la hacen coherente e inteligible, mediante el uso de puntos de vista e interpretaciones que son, siempre, parciales, provisionales, y, en última instancia, tan subjetivas como las construcciones artísticas.

She had joined the Viet Cong herself four years earlier, its Young Pioneer Organization.

Bowman immediately went to work, writing furiously in his notepad. A staff colonel asked what he was doing, and the major said, "I'm making a wish list." If he'd read the scene correctly, he said, "We are going to get called in to see General Tolson in about fifteen minutes, and we're about to get everything we need.

Youth ministry may be one of the only professions that has settled into the pattern of handing over total responsibility for running an organization to young people just out of college. Far too often, anxiety, not wisdom, drives us.

why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

A mí me gustan los horarios, porque son la garantía de que no te vas a perder en el tiempo.

You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution, which postulates that the history of life has been just the opposite. People like you credit both theories. It's de rigueur . Is that reason rational? I say, f*ck off.

This starts with personal action and community organization. Creating a healthier world is a revolutionary act, one you can start right now.

leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

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; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.

That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.

Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.

A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

An important aspect of writing unmentioned by Burton was 'priority'; what to tell first. That always seemed one of the basic problems.