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Great Organizing Quotes, Part I

Written by: suzanne rodriguez 1,139 views

The seemingly impossible desire to be orderly, disciplined, and/or organized seems to have perplexed people for centuries:

• Start at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go till you come to the end; then stop. (19th century author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, from his classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Don’t agonize. Organize. (Florynce Kennedy, 20th century US lawyer and civil rights advocate)

• There can be no one best way of organizing a business. (Joanne Woodward, Actor)

• Good order is the foundation of all things. (Edmund Burke, 18th century Irish statesman and philosopher)

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves … self discipline with all of them came first. (Harry S Truman, U.S. President 1945-1953)

• It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. (Hesiod, ancient Greek poet)

• Each morning sees some task begin/Each evening sees it close/Something attempted, something done/Has earned a night’s repose. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 19th century US poet and educator)

• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (Eleanor Roosevelt, mid-20th century First Lady and lifelong political activist)

• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. (Pearl S. Buck, 20th century American writer; winner of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for Literature)

• Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein, 20th century Nobel Prize winning physicist)

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