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Quotes About Organization

Instead of organizing and cleaning my house, I pin ideas on how to organize and clean my house. The irony is not lost on me.
~ Author Unknown
Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.
~ R. McMillan, 1904
...even the best worker cannot beat a bad system...
~ W. Edwards Deming
What makes it so hard to organize the environment sensibly is that everything we touch is hooked up to everything else.
~ Isaac Asimov
and one of the regulations indicates that they were always cautious in expressing opinions of one another or of those outside of the organization, and they were not critical of the lives or affairs of the people they were trying to reform or assist. They also adhered strictly to one of their laws: "Judge not—lest ye be judged also.
~ H. Spencer Lewis
the demands of a highly organized industrial society made people behave in more disciplined, calculating and cooperative ways.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Jeg tar av meg frakken, hatten og skjerfet og gir meg i kast med å tømme askebegre og plukke opp klær. Tre kvarter senere ser leiligheten ut som om den kunne ha blitt fotografert til Håndbok i husstell for leiemordere. Jeg har nettopp sunket ned i en lenestol, den som vender mot kjøkkenet og inngangsdøra, da Gunholder stiger inn. Jeg skynder meg å trekke inn magen.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
~ Hannah Arendt
Most sites need to prevent breadth — many many pages that are organized cohesively. A site that presents a single webpage is unlikely to present sufficient depth of content to justify extensive SEO." The SCO trick is to draw traffic with desirable content, and to 'seduce' the traffic into portions of the site that may not directly have anything to do with the content — this is the ultimate goal of the SEO campaign.
~ Harold Davis
Thomson Reuters, for instance, advises reporters and editors: "It is acceptable to say that a guerrilla organization claimed responsibility for carrying out an attack. Do not say it claimed credit.
~ Harold Evans
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Management must manage!
~ Harold S. Geneen
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
~ Harold S. Geneen
You need to know that being organized has nothing to do with being neat and clean. It simply means being able to find what you're looking for quickly and accomplishing what you want to accomplish efficiently.
~ Harry H Harrison
The effective teachers spent time organizing and structuring their classrooms so the students knew what to do to succeed.
~ Harry K. Wong
strategic-issue reviews are organized around "facts, alternatives, and choices.
~ Harvard Business School Press
Do your organization's ethics resonate with your own values? If not, your career will likely be marked by frustration and poor performance.
~ Harvard Business School Press
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
~ Harvey Pekar
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
~ Havelock Ellis
Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that.
~ Heather Graham
She reaches into the backpack she uses for a purse
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
I like labels because they mean organized and order and control and correct." "Sometimes they do. And sometimes they just give you the illusion of those things. Giving something a label and putting it in a box makes you feel like you've understood it and accounted for it and can keep track of it, and that's great for things like paperwork or books, but sometimes things get mislabeled or misfiled, and then they get misunderstood or misaccounted for.
~ Laurie Frankel
We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.
~ Laurie Nadel
Procrastination hurts almost any project, but it's murder on a travel journal. First
~ Lavinia Spalding