Orderliness quotes

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Orderliness #Dirt #Disease
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.
-- Erwin Schrodinger

#Negative #Levels #Orderliness
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
-- Karl E. Weick

#People #Variables #Orderliness
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Law #Religion #Orderliness
I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
-- Suze Orman

#Orderliness #Wealth #Prosperity
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
-- William Strunk, Jr.

#Simplicity #Style #Orderliness
Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.
-- Alice Foote MacDougall

#Order #Orderliness #Economy

My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.
Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.
The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.
My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
When in doubt, use Caslon.
When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.
I'm obsessed with being on time. If you say, "Let's meet up at 10 a.m.," I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.
Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.
We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.
I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.