Clutter Quotes - Page 6

• I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Hate, I Hate, I Can

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Input

  Source: deadline.com

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• I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

  Brian Greene

  Stuff, I Can

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Glasses, Meals, Aftermath

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, True Friend, Mean

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• Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

  Neal Stephenson

  Basements, Universe

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• Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Trying, Cleaning

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• Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Hurt, Discipline, Giving

  Vinita Hampton Wright (2010). “Simple Acts of Moving Forward”, p.30, Loyola Press

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• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ignorance, Years

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• The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Opportunity, Simplicity, Leader

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Procrastination, Unfinished Business, Effort

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Brother, Father

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• What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Extraordinary Beauty, Ideas

  "Richard Dawkins: I Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 24, 2012.

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Simple, Simplicity

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• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Dark, Antiques

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• In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

  John Robbins

  Order, Battle, Doe

  John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books

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• It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

  Alice Walker

  Creativity, Space, Mind

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• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

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• 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

  Mother, Break Through, Advertising

  Source: collider.com

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• (Television) rots the senses in the head!
  It kills imagination dead!
  It clogs and clutters up the mind!
  It makes a child so dull and blind
  He can no longer understand
  A fantasy, a fairyland!
  His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
  His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
  He cannot think -he only sees!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

  Roald Dahl, “Television”

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• Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.

  Jim McElwain

  Keys, Color, Games

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• People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

  Emily Post

  Past, Land, Names

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

  Charlie Munger

  Common Sense, Bats, Tunes

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