Quotes About Order

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

I am very particular about cleansing.

T]he "Law Of Frequency Of Error". . . reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob . . . the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand . . . an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.13

A man is nothing but his mind; if that be out of order, all's amiss, and if that be well, the rest is at ease.

Washington gave the order to Major General John Sullivan that no matter what complaints he heard from the local tribes, he should "not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Raeder and Dönitz had objected on the practical grounds that such an order would undermine U-boat morale: officers and men would react against shooting defenceless people in the water and would assume that the enemy would mete out the same treatment to them in reprisal if the positions were reversed.

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Flat spaces are the first battlefield you lose in the war with your stuff.

Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.

Earlier generations had worshipped malign and capricious spirits. Ours put its faith in an ordered universe.

The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.

Guan Zhong explains (as the fourth-century-BC Guanzi attests) that management of water is the key to maintaining social order. There are 'five harmful influences' in nature, he says, including drought and pestilence – but floods are the worst. Uncontrolled water has a symbolic as well as a pragmatic impact: it leads to the breakdown of filial piety and disintegration of social relations.

Zimbardo and Boyd Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.

Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.

Authoritarianism—the familial, social, and political obsession with order, control, and obedience—is rooted in violence and coercion.

She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.

The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love, Broke out, to show Its bright incipience sailing above, Still promising to solve, and satisfy, And set unchangeably in order. So To pile them back, to cry, Was hard, without lamely admitting how It had not done so then, and could not now. - Love Songs In Age

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The social justice question is: does the state treat its citizens well and equally in selecting the order that it imposes? The political legitimacy question is: does the state treat its citizens well and equally in the way it imposes that order?

Culture and sacred order are inseparable... No culture has ever preserved itself where there is not a registration of sacred order.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.

Shit," I said. I had been looking out the window, fingers slightly parting thin drapes. "One of those things is . . . ah shit. They're coming this way." "The zombies?" "No, Dave. The pizza guy. I placed an order when I knew we were going to be here for a while," I