Organization Quotes

We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Thomas à Kempis

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Bible

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

Calvin Coolidge

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

William Hazlitt

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

George Bernard Shaw

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

H.G.Wells

Timing degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Winston Churchill

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

Michel de Montaigne

Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

G.K. Chesterton

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Thomas à Kempis

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Bible

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

Calvin Coolidge

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

William Hazlitt

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

George Bernard Shaw

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

H.G.Wells

Timing degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Winston Churchill

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

Michel de Montaigne

Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

G.K. Chesterton

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response.No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask!

Trenton Lee Stewart

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Alain de Botton

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

Alain de Botton

Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Kat Lahr

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Edwin Grant Conklin

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of themorrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Bertrand Russell

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.

The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now. Not for the person we were in the past.

An organization has worth when its movement has a tangible goal

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

Christina Scalise

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

Organization takes the fun out of everything.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the structure and composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope. ... Just as Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small, so too the physician who observes them to the best of his ability is worthy of praise, not blame, for he must also correct and repair these machines as well as he can every time they get out of order.

Marcello Malpighi

Battling busyness is a community response.

Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Curious George Brigade

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

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