Quotes About Organization

Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

Paperwork is as necessary to modern life as food and shelter. You can't live without it.

The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentration is illuminating. (...) Against the industrial organization of death, animals have no other recourse, no other possible defiance, except suicide.

I have arranged my little life.

veo un animal menos fuerte que unos, menos ágil que otros, pero, en conjunto, el más ventajosamente organizado de todos;

Little adapted to reasoning, crowds, on the contrary, are quick to act. As the result of their present organisation their strength has become immense. The dogmas whose birth we are witnessing will soon have the force of the old dogmas; that is to say, the tyrannical and sovereign force of being above discussion. The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Plan your work - work your plan

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.