Quotes About Organization

Going to an organization where winning means something, where you're held accountable and you have goals and things like that I think that molds you early as a player and gives you that platform and foundation to be a professional.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

I have a nice apartment now that's all taken care of. I make my bed every day.

I live in a little studio apartment, so I try to keep the space super clean at all times.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

What people want, above all, is order.

But I have a home in Arizona now. I've loved coming up with this organization and being with these guys.

At the end of the day, the Army is a standards-based organization.

La burocrazia è un gigantesco meccanismo azionato da pigmei".

Balzac's first works were written without any overall plan, but by 1830 the author began to group his first novels (e.g. Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life).

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn't in extremis?

I've said often that every enterprise and organization has a memory. And those memories create a path for people to follow.

If you want a place guarded properly, hire Germans.

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Again we take our cue from Strunk and White: "Before beginning to compose something, gauge the nature and extent of the enterprise, and work from a suitable design…

But it was predominantly a reflection of Hitler's concept of politics as essentially agitation, propaganda, and 'struggle'. Organizational forms remained of little concern to him as long as his own freedom of action was not constrained by them. The crucial issue was the leadership of the 'political struggle'.

Ahí estaban los libros, en el cuarto de estar. Los libros de leer solían acabar en el dormitorio, en el suelo en filas, como enfermos en la sala de espera del médico.