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Quotes About Order

Documentation is an affirmation of order.
~ Michael E. Gerber
They see the pattern, understand the order, experience the vision. Peter Drucker
~ Michael E. Gerber
What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.
~ Michael E. Gerber
3. The Model Will Stand Out as a Place of Impeccable Order
~ Michael E. Gerber
If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The model will provide consistent value to your customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders, beyond what they expect. 2. The model will be operated by people with the lowest possible level of skill. 3. The model will stand out as a place of impeccable order. 4. All work in the model will be documented in Operations Manuals. 5. The model will provide a uniformly predictable service to the customer. 6. The model will utilize a uniform color, dress, and facilities code.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Collecting is a way to bring order to the world, which is what museums, our public collectors, do.
~ Michael Kimmelman
So to confirm by seeking more than one source, a search for "Putin+Rothschild+bank" yields numerous reports going back as far as 2013. It appears that Putin is definitely battling the New World Order.
~ Michael Knight
Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. "Creeping determinism," he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: "He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.
~ Michael Lewis
He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The
~ Michael Moorcock
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
~ Michael Ondaatje
we order our lives with barely held stories
~ Michael Ondaatje
Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle...But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
~ Michael Ondaatje
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot—see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It was always raining and cold, and there was no order but for the great maps of art that showed judgement, piety and sacrifice. The Eighth Army came upon river after river of destroyed bridges, and their sapper units clambered down banks on ladders of rope within enemy gunfire and swam or waded across.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I was running to Asia and everything would change. It began with that moment when I was dancing and laughing wildly within the comfort and order of my life.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Always listening, listening to the wet fluid speech with no order, unfinished stories, badly told jokes that he sober as a spider perfected in silence.
~ Michael Ondaatje
History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchal structure of power and privilege. And all ruling elites are scornful and intolerant of alternative viewpoints.
~ Michael Parenti
nowhere in nature is their contest as plain or as poignant as it is in the beauty of a flower and its rapid passing. There, the achievement of order against all odds and its blithe abandonment. There, the perfection of art and the blind flux of nature. There, somehow, both transcendence and necessity. Could that be it—right there, in a flower—the meaning of life?
~ Michael Pollan
On the spectrum he lays out (in his entropic brain article) ranging from excessive order to excessive entropy, depression, addiction, and disorders of obsession all fall on the too-much-order end.
~ Michael Pollan
Good gardens often seem to have this quality, of order under a certain amount of pressure, wilderness just barely contained. They make something of the fact that nature seems to resist our forms, turn this fact of fate to good account.
~ Michael Pollan