Clutter Quotes

• Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

  Carmine Gallo

  Brain, Energy, Environment

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• When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.

  Michael Kitson

  Simplicity, Greater

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• Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

  Eleanor Brown

  Self, Ideas, Support

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• The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

  Karen Kingston

  Order, World, Reason Why

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

  Wendell Berry

  Fire, House, Relieved

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

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• Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

  Russell Lynes

  Friendly, Useless, Possession

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.

  Karen Kingston

  Mean, Energy, English Words

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.11, Harmony

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Form, Collecting, Organized

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Real, Night

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.80, Bantam

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• Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?

  Emmet Fox

  Grateful, Successful, Hard Times

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• My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

  Yi Sun-sin

  Life, Courage, Badass

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• Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.

  Denise Linn

  Modern, Alchemy, Clearing

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

  Jonathan Ive

  Simplicity, Absence, Simplicity In Design

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

  Mary Oliver

  Follow Your Dreams, Curious, Notion

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• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Uplifting, Future

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• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confusion

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 333, 1977.

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• On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Too Much, Persons

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• I have no time to be in a hurry.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Space

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• A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Causes

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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• It's always something

  Gilda Radner

  Uplifting

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, Simon and Schuster

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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