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Quotes About Organization

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
~ Charlie Watts
I have to plan all my meals and snacks every day, or the wheels come off, and I gain weight.
~ Maye Musk
Before I had kids, my bag was clean. In case I need to occupy them, I like to have Hot Wheels cars, See's lollipops, and a deck of cards.
~ Betsy Brandt
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
~ Zaha Hadid
Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.
~ Robert Sapolsky
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
~ Edmund White
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
~ Norman MacCaig
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.
~ Paul Davies
In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
~ Taran Killam
Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.
~ Johnny Kelly
I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
~ H. Rap Brown
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
~ Frederick Wiseman
I am trying to Marie Condo the house starting with my books, although it's really hard to part with them! But I really want to de-clutter and get rid of stuff I haven't used for six months, whether it's clothes, bags, or shoes.
~ Shabana Azmi
I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
~ Hailee Steinfeld
You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.
~ Richard Branson
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
~ Adam Savage
I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.
~ Justin Timberlake
NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
~ Burt Rutan
The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.
~ Mike McCurry
As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.
~ Arash Ferdowsi