Today we’ll finish up the bounty off quotes about being organized that we started last week (see the March 20 post):

• I find it helps to organize chores into categories: Things I won’t do now; Things I won’t do later; Things I’ll never do. (Cartoon Character “Maxine”)

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. (20^th century abstract expressionist painter Hans Hoffman)

• Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. (early 20^th century U. S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis)

• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up. (A.A. Milne, English author and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh)

• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being. (American atuhor Anne Dillard, from The Writing Life)

• 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. (American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote Little Town on the Prairie)

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (Dutch artist M. C. Escher, known for his precise and mathematically-inspired woodcuts)

• Time is really the only capital any human being has, and the one thing he can’t afford to waste. (American inventor Thomas Edison)

• The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying small stones. (Ancient Chinese Proverb)

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© Suzanne Rodriguez
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