Quotes About Organization

Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

The fact that people in countries with cold weather tend to be harder working, richer, less relaxed, less amicable, less tolerant of idleness, more (over) organized and more harried than those in hotter climates should make us wonder whether wealth is mere indemnification, and motivation is just overcompensation for not having a real life.

the (stated) purpose of science is to get to the truth, not to give you a feeling of organization or make you feel better. We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

The very same desire for order, interestingly, applies to scientific pursuits-it is just that, unlike art, the (stated) purpose of science is to get to the truth, not to give you a feeling of organization or make you feel better. We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

La burocracia es una estructura mediante la cual una persona es convenientemente separada de las consecuencias de sus actos.

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

everything is "organized" with optimizing intent

I wanted to become a flaneur, a professional meditator, sit in cafes, lounge, unglued to desks and organization structures, sleep as long as I needed, read voraciously, and not owe any explanation to anybody. I wanted to be left alone in order to build, small steps at a time, an entire system of thought based on my Black Swan idea

Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.

the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality);

Political parties are hierarchical, they are designed in a way to substitute someone's own decision making with a well-defined protocol.

he is far from headquarters and has no idea of his minute-to-minute standing in the firm except through signals.

It is said that the successful organization of the future will be above all a learning organization. It can equally be said that it will be an organization geared to self-esteem.

what we see is no longer "management" and "workers" but an integration of specialists. Each of these specialists has knowledge and expertise not possessed by the others in the organization.

The books are all in order now. It'll be easy for the children to find any book they want. It was a difficult job. But you did it. Thank you.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Culling staff and methods from SIS's D section (D for destruction) and the Army's similar MI (Military Intelligence) unit, its masterminds, who started the organization from three rooms at St. Ermin's Hotel, referred to themselves as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit.

The successors to both Wari and Tiwanaku combined the former's organizational skills and the latter's sense of design and razzle-dazzle. First came Chimor, then the greatest empire ever seen in Peru. Spread at its greatest extent over seven hundred miles of the coastline, Chimor was an ambitious state that grew maize and cotton by irrigating almost fifty thousand acres around the Moche River (all of modern Peru only reached that figure in 1960). A

Much of Wayna Qhapaq's time was devoted to organizing the empire's public works projects. Often these were more political than practical. Because the Inka believed that idleness fomented rebellion, the Spanish traveler Pedro Cieza de León reported, he ordered unemployed work brigades "to move a mountain from one spot to another" for no practical purpose

Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as it becomes, through changed habits, superfluous, without by any means causing some other part to be largely developed in a corresponding degree. And conversely, that natural selection may perfectly well succeed in largely developing an organ without requiring as a necessary compensation the reduction of some adjoining part.

And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.

How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one organic being to another being, been perfected?