Organization Quotes

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

~ Kamal Ravikant

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

~ Bonnie Marcus

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

~ Nick Hornby

...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.

~ Melissa Michaels

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

~ Clay Shirky

Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.

~ Asa Don Brown

The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.

~ John Schuerholz

Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.

~ Travis Polso

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

~ Ali Alja'bari

Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.

~ Clay Shirky

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

~ Diego Rivera

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

~ Curious George Brigade

Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny

~ Avinash Advani

Battling busyness is a community response.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the structure and composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope. ... Just as Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small, so too the physician who observes them to the best of his ability is worthy of praise, not blame, for he must also correct and repair these machines as well as he can every time they get out of order.

~ Marcello Malpighi

To be in hell is to drift, to be in heaven is to steer.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

~ Peter Block

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

~ Richie Norton

Organization takes the fun out of everything.

~ Kelly Moran

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

~ Neil Shubin

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

~ Christina Scalise

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

~ Neil Gaiman

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

~ Richard Dawkins

The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now. Not for the person we were in the past.

~ Marie Kondō

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.

~ Steven Magee

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

~ Clay Shirky

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

~ Clay Shirky

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

~ Beryl Markham

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of themorrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

~ Bertrand Russell

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

~ Clifford Cohen

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

~ Edwin Grant Conklin

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

~ Kat Lahr

Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.

~ Ada Palmer

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

~ Alain De Botton

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

~ Alain De Botton