Quotes About Organization

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Success comes to people with leadership skills, a sound vision, enthusiasm, and the willingness to put forth the effort to build an organization and find others who will do the same.

they lay flat, fluff your pillows, and be on your way. See how fast that was? I make my bed as soon as I get up in the morning, even before I head to the bathroom

Most jobs can be done in less than 15 minutes. Just 15! If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes, you might be doing something wrong. So set your timer and you'll be amazed at how much progress you make before the bell goes off.

Routines are not prisons from which you try to escape. Routines are the framework for a peaceful life. Routines establish a series of habits that are strung into a logical succession of actions. When we don't establish routines, we inevitably make mistakes.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

She tried, leaning back and closing her eyes, to put in order what she had seen, heard, and what she had known before. She wanted to place her knowledge in paragraphs ( a good opening sentence? she thought), so that it would be easy to handle when she came to write it. But it did not fit in paragraphs and she could not see it, plain and informative, colourful but unimpassioned, on a page. There was no beginning, no middle, no end.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

I finally had to tell her that I had a list of things I needed to get done and it would go much faster if they would all stay in one place and shut up for a while and sleeping was the most efficient use of that time.

They had passed a lift junction, but it wasn't big enough for all of them at once and Wilken sensibly refused to split the group.

Three P's: Personal Pacing, Priorities, and Parameters

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization

If you have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first" Robert J. McKain, inspirational writer

Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.