Quotes About Organization

When I rode on to meet the army, I learned a thing one never forgets after: how much easier it is to move the many than the few.

As to "Aesthetic Considerations," Ansel counseled, "A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that subject. The expression must be an emotional amplification, and this emotional amplification relates to point of view, organization, revelation of substance through textures, tonal relations, and the perfection of the technical expression of all these elements."54

Plan your work, work your plan.

She was in charge of the 'red team,' the group taking blood samples. (The group collecting urine to check pesticide exposure levels called themselves the 'gold team' in response.)

A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.

The difference between a dream and a plan is a to-do list.

The essence of 5S is to follow what has been agreed on. It begins with discarding what we don't need in the gemba (seiri) and then arranging all the necessary items in the gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (seiso), and these three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (shitsuke).

Quality begins when everybody in the organization commits to never sending rejects or imperfect information to the next process.

The leader gives life to the culture of an organization by articulating the vision of the tribe.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

Aim to have less stuff to do.

Let's be honest. There's not really any safe place to meet an aspiring head of a top-secret organization, trained in every manner of mind control and manipulation and bent on word domination by any means necessary.

As I would later discover in my own career, there are a lot of C-minus brains in the journalism business. A kind of groupthink is developed that permeates the upper levels of media organizations, and they send unconscious signals down the ranks.

A fragmented task takes more time than a blocked-time task.

Remember that codes are more than a filing system. Every project needs a systematic way to store coded field data and a way to retrieve them easily during analysis.

Welch insisted on personal loyalty and top-down control. Birch Society chapters were rigidly organized. Members were directed in secret to pursue political office. Birchers were drawn not only to Welch's anti-Communist message but also to his description of a world where sinister elites were behind everything that had gone wrong in the country.

The future of your organization and the potential of your employees are intertwined; their destines are linked." - Matthew Kelly, The Dream Manager

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

We cannot, however, go wrong with the understanding from biomedicine that there are four levels of organization in the living body: cell, tissue, organ, and system.

I do not think the world in the act of perception: it organizes itself in front of me.

The organism is an edifice of compensated instabilities (cf. walk, lose one's balance, catch oneself). Sich bewegen= to organize the instability oneself, and thereby dominate it (the Sich defined without 'consciousness').

The world is originally perceived as a total, if not complete, organization where effects are still bound up with causes before all intellectual representation...In perception causality is elucidated.

Some lasting terms of military organization owe their origin to Spain: colonel comes from cabo de colunela, or head of a column; infantry most likely comes from infante, the name for a Spanish prince, who often led these formations of foot soldiers.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.