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Quotes About Lists

There are plenty of officers infiltrating the protestors and making lists of contacts
~ Christopher Fowler
Segmented, routinized, and depersonalized, the job of the bureaucrat or specialist—whether it involved confiscating property, scheduling trains, drafting legislation, sending telegrams, or compiling lists—could be performed without confronting the reality of mass murder.
~ Christopher R. Browning
We like lists because we don't want to die.
~ Umberto Eco
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
~ Umberto Eco
We lists because we don't want to die.
~ Umberto Eco
JednÄ… tylko rzecz pisze siÄ™ dla siebie i jest to lista zakupów. SÅ'u?y do zapamiÄ™tania, co masz kupi?, a kiedy ju? kupiÅ'eÅ›, mo?esz jÄ… podrze?, bo do niczego innego siÄ™ nie przyda. Wszystko inne piszesz, ?eby coÅ› komuÅ› powiedzie?.
~ Umberto Eco
It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible handwriting….here we have copied out fine passages from the classics;…here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink.
~ Virginia Woolf
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
~ H. Allen Smith
What kind of lists?" "You know: best of, worst of, one hundred reasons why making lists prevents you from doing something meaningful. Let's start
~ Tim Dorsey
My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.
~ Charles Yu
She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.
~ Harriet Evans
Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.
~ Peter Morgan
I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.
~ Freema Agyeman
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
~ Richard Flanagan
Wunderlist: app/herramienta de gestión de tareas pendientes para ayudarte a hacer cosas.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.
~ Chris Hemsworth
This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.
~ Patricia Monaghan
My dear child," beamed Martin Silenus, "I am not trying to tell you anything. I just thought it might be entertaining—as well as edifying and enlightening—if at some point we exchanged lists of all the locations at which we have either robbed or been robbed. Since you have the unfair advantage of having been the daughter of a senator, I am sure that your list would be much more distinguished Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and much longer." Lamia
~ Dan Simmons
When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.
~ Katie Holmes
Lots of people have been making lists for years but have never found the procedure to be particularly effective.
~ David Allen
A Projects list Project support material Calendar actions and information Next Actions lists A Waiting For list Reference material A Someday/Maybe list
~ David Allen
A "Projects" list • Project support material • Calendared actions and information • "Next Actions" lists • A "Waiting For" list • Reference material • A "Someday/Maybe" list
~ David Allen