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Quotes About Order

All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.
~ Taiichi Ohno
Seek the still of prayer that you may know yourself and make order of what is required of you.
~ Tamara Leigh
If you, like me, are essentially a city person, then the chances are that when you imagine a wood you picture a simple thing: matching green trees in even rows, a soft carpet of dead leaves or pine needles, orderly as a child's drawing. Possibly those earnestly efficient man-made woods are in fact like that; I wouldn't know.
~ Tana French
En medio del desorden la ley debe prevalecer o la humanidad perecerá.
~ Taylor Caldwell
The difference is that the heat energy we radiate is a high-entropy form of energy, meaning it's disordered. The chemical energy we absorb is a low-entropy form of energy, meaning it's ordered. In effect, we are consuming order and generating disorder; we live by increasing the disorder of the universe. It's only because the universe started in a highly ordered state that we are able to exist at all.
~ Ted Chiang
We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.
~ Ted Chiang
This confirms a long-held belief of mine that lexical order induces thermodynamic order. The lexical order of an amulet reinforces the order a body already possesses, thus providing protection against damage. The lexical order of an animating name increases the order of a body, thus providing motive power for an automaton.
~ Ted Chiang
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.
~ Michel Faber
I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for internal reform that is how we bring bills up, getting back to regular order, how we offer amendments or don't offer amendments.
~ Jason Chaffetz
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
~ Thomas Malthus
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
~ Ray Kurzweil
In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
~ Jim Costa
I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in 'shul.' Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere.
~ Matisyahu
My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.
~ Nikolai Gogol
My children were not overly spoiled. They had to make their beds. They had to line up their shoes.
~ Kathy Hilton
The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.
~ Margaret Sanger
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
~ Le Corbusier
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
~ Robert Kennedy
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
~ Robert Bolt
Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.
~ Raphael Lemkin
Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.
~ Edward Bernays