480 Quotes About Organization

I wish I was one of those people who clean as they go, who are models of organization and clarity, but I'm just not. If I find myself with a piece of paper in my hand, and I'm unsure where to put it, I lay it down on the nearest surface and hope it folds itself into a paper plane and flies wherever it's supposed to go.

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.

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.

Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination

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

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.