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A.A. Milne
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
Anne Dillard The Writing Life
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being.
Arthur Helps
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Denis Diderot Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
Eda J. LeShan The Conspiracy Against Childhood
...in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Elinor Guggenheimer
I see something that has to be done and I organize it.
Eliphas Levi
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
Florence Kennedy
Don't agonize. Organize.
G. K. Chesterton The Bluff of the Big Shops Outline of Sanity
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
H. G. Wells
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Havelock Ellis
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Hesiod Works and Days
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Town on the Prairie
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.
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go till you come to the end; then stop.
Louis Brandeis
Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.
M. C. Escher
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Margaret J. Wheatley Leadership and the New Science
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
 
 
 
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