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Quotes About Clutter

I have bobby pins everywhere.
~ John Calipari
I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
~ Mike D
Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.
~ Roger Stone
Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
~ Gretchen Rubin
My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.
~ David Wenham
It's really hard to break through the clutter and get the attention of the top investors, as they typically only look at deals that come in from a warm, credible referral. There's absolutely nothing more credible than getting an endorsement from a well-known subject matter expert who has already put their own money into your company.
~ Scott Weiss
She owns all these nice condos, but she lives in an apartment. Go figure. She calls herself a minimalist, preferring a simple life to one "cluttered with materialistic objects that serve no purpose other than to provide a place for dust to gather." Her words, not mine. But you gotta love someone who sees dusting and scrubbing as a poor use of one's time. "I've never seen a headstone inscribed 'May she rest in peace. She kept a clean house.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
The abundance of the children's room must be every parent's or child's worst nightmare. "I'm bored." "I've got nothing to play with"—even though the shelves are full to the brim. Dust-collectors, a useless mess. Where is the love for the teddy bear, the doll, the car? The present which was given in love and did not drown in abundance is hard to find. The child does not need the toys—the toy factories need the child.15
~ Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
If we could see our lives from God's perspective, many of us would be forced to admit that our lives are cluttered with all sorts of things that keep us from moving forward and receiving the abundant life he promises. We need to simplify our lives, eliminating the things that bog us down and keep us from doing what God says are priorities.
~ Randy Carlson
A room without a purpose becomes filled with things that serve no purpose. It is the same with our minds.
~ Raymond Zar
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
~ James Blake
If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.
~ Julie Morgenstern
Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.
~ Karen Kingston
Your body is the temporary temple of your Spirit. What you keep around you in the extended temple of your home needs to change as you change and grow, so that it reflects who you are. Particularly if you are engaged in any kind of self-improvement work, you need to update your environment regularly. So get into the habit of leaving a trail of discarded clutter in your wake, and start to think of it as a sign of your progression!
~ Karen Kingston
When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.
~ Karen Kingston
Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
~ Karen Kingston
climbed the stairs to Pepper's bedroom. As usual, the place looked like a bomb had gone off inside. Clothes covered the floor. Books were splayed page-down (" A sin," their mother said).
~ Karin Slaughter
Ahmed told me they were expanding the museum so it could fit more tourists inside, but I think this will just encourage the museum people to put even more old boxes on display. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up. Humans
~ Karl Pilkington
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
~ Billy Joel
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.
~ Harold Geneen
Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?
~ Rick Riordan
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
~ Bruce Mau
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.
~ John Carpenter