Organize Quotes - Page 18

• Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Successful, Exercise

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

  Milton Friedman

  Quality, Population, Aspect

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].

  Costa-Gavras

  President, Banking, Bills

  Source: progressive.org

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• It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

  Seth

  Reality, Thinking, Tragedy

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• Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your
  reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams;
  according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can
  help those who organize their reality according to their fears.

  Seth

  Dream, Reality, Joy

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• Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

  Michael Gerber

  Running, People, Function

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• The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

  Ross Perot

  Years, Snakes, Firsts

  Quoted in BusinessWeek, 6 Oct. 1986

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  Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

  James Brown

  Country, Real, Kids

  James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.175, Head of Zeus

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• You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.

  Jeff Bridges

  Reading, Guy, Trying

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

  Takashi Murakami

  Japan, Way, Animation

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

  Edward Norton

  Insecure, Thinking, Weakness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

  Marge Piercy

  Way, Great Men, Fractions

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Helping, Categories

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Compassion, Voice

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

  Hal Abelson

  Powerful, Mean, Ideas

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• You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Metaphor

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• The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Mother, Children, Father

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• That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

  Brian Swimme

  Destiny, Years, Humanity

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• And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

  Taylor Branch

  Country, Patriotic, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Baseball, Team, Kids

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

  Arca

  Trying, Doe, Done

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Fall, Simple

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Powerful, Gay, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

  Maxim Gorky

  Ideas, Humanity, Feelings

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