Organizing Things Quotes

• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Foundation, Organize

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Order, Organization, Organized Life

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Organization, Attention, Trouble

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Organization, Force, Organize

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• I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

  Benjamin Carson

  Building Things, Program, Scholarship

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

  Taylor Swift

  Color, Used, Closets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

  Bill Gates

  Media, Choices, Information

  Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

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• The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

  Jayma Mays

  Kids, Phones, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.

  Roy Kesey

  Reading, Past, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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