Quotes About Organization

What kind of lists?" "You know: best of, worst of, one hundred reasons why making lists prevents you from doing something meaningful. Let's start

The number one directive of any decent Master Plan is unlimited sub–Master Plans.

Tampa: Visit again soon: Almost got our shit together.

Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again - and I don't see any deep reasons why we shouldn't get along... we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.

I'm definitely a note taker.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with it. You can rest from any thoughts if you put them down on paper.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

I use my notes app on my iPhone religiously, and I have one note just for movies. Every time I see a movie I think I'm going to want to watch, I'll put it in there.

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.