56 Quotes About Organizing

Technology is great when used effectively but do not allow it to use you

Passive acceptance cripples our power. Working-class people with a strong united voice, and supported by formidable leadership, pose a TREMENDOUS threat to companies that amass riches by hiding behind lax regulations and the arrogant assumption we are too intimidated or uninformed to speak up.

At the same time we organize behind specific and urgent issues, we must also develop and maintain an ongoing vision, and the theory following upon that vision, of why we struggle—of the shape and taste and philosophy of what we wish to see.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.

Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.

One can … get trapped in one's own intellectual web.

What is easy is sustainable. Birds coast when they can.