Organizing Things Quotes:

Good order is the foundation of all things.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Order, Foundation, Organized, Organizing Things

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Planning, Organised, Organized Life, Organizing Things

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Charles Buxton

source: Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

topic: Time, Want, Had A Great Time, Managing Time, Just Live Your Life

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

- Isabella Beeton

source: 1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

topic: Order, Should, Housework, Organized Life, Organizing Things

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.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Organization, Attention, Trouble, Little House On The Prairie, Organizing Things

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Management Motivation, Managing People

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Organization, Force, Organize, Organizing Things

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

- Benjamin Carson

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Building Things, Program, Scholarship, Organizing Things

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

- Taylor Swift

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Color, Used, Closets, Organizing Things

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

- Bill Gates

source: Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

topic: Organizing Things

The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

- Jayma Mays

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Phones, Order, Alphabetical Order, Organizing Things

What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.

- Roy Kesey

topic: Reading, Past, Voice, Organizing Things