Top 100 Quotes About Clutter
#1. There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.
Ivan Vladislavic
#2. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H
Donald Altman
#3. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#4. Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
Roberto Orci
#5. My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.
Leslie Bibb
#6. The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.
Frederick Lenz
#7. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.
Karl Pilkington
#8. If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.
Giuliana Rancic
#9. Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.
Walter Isaacson
#10. Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.
William Zinsser
#11. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
#12. Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld
#13. Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#14. There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper
Becky Chambers
#15. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
Jonathan Ive
#16. I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
Edward Tufte
#19. And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.
Ross King
#20. I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'
Robert Scoble
#21. I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
Rod Serling
#22. Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.
Edward Tufte
#23. But as I look around me at all the absurdly expensive fuss and clutter, I ask it anyway. How did I get here?
Jeff Lindsay
#24. When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
Anne Katherine
#25. Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
Karen Kingston
#26. After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.
Golden Krishna
#27. At its heart, clutter is a lack of peace.
Kathi Lipp
#28. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
Janette Oke
#29. Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy?
William Zinsser
#30. Start with the stuff (as most people are inclined to do when they try to conquer their clutter) and you are pretty much guaranteed failure. Start with the vision you have for the life you want and you have taken the first real step to long-term and remarkable change. The
Peter Walsh
#31. But that's impossible. Can you imagine Mr. Clutter missing church? Just to sleep?
Truman Capote
#32. When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#33. Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.
Gretchen Rubin
#36. Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.
Charles R. Swindoll
#37. If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
Suze Orman
#39. There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.
Niecy Nash
#40. I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.
Andrew Vachss
#41. Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done
Matthew West
#42. Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,
William Zinsser
#43. Many of them have spent so many years applying erroneous conventional approaches that their homes overflow with unnecessary items and they struggle to keep clutter under control with ineffective storage methods. How can they be expected to know how to tidy when they have never studied it properly?
Marie Kondo
#44. The point is, you need to distinguish between what honestly moves you and what the world is telling you should melt your heart. If something doesn't reach you on a personal level, let it go. It's hard enough dealing with everything that does.
Judi Culbertson
#45. I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
Paul Krugman
#46. I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
Dan Stevens
#47. It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.
Gretchen Rubin
#48. Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble.
Ashish Patel
#50. If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
Nate Berkus
#53. We're living in a time of so much clutter that has allowed everyone to express themselves at any moment. We have access into people's lives like never before. It's a lot to take in and it's easy to get overwhelmed and swallowed up in it.
Wendy Starland
#54. But here's the thing
no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you "need".
Karen Kingston
#55. Be as a seed, a seed for change. Allow my gift to grow and rearrange. Multiple blessings for many. For those with none, let there be plenty. p64
Alexandra Chauran
#57. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love.
Marie Kondo
#58. Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
Russell Lynes
#59. The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
William Macneile Dixon
#60. Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#62. Lent begins with a challenge to clear out the mental and spiritual clutter and so discover how to live life to the full.
Maggi Dawn
#63. I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
Joshua Lederberg
#64. Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.
Chris Rock
#66. This is where I liked to be when I was hangover or coming down off a cocaine binge, here in the dust with all these dusty people, all this liveliness and clutter and color, things for sale to cheer me up, and greasy food that would slip down by throat.
Anne Lamott
#67. It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#69. There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
Julia Roberts
#70. Don't clutter your life with things that bring you down. Focus on the things that life you up.
Robin Bielman
#71. I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Freddie Mercury
#73. I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
Albert Einstein
#74. 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
#75. The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity.
Scott Thompson
#76. If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#77. When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.
Karen Kingston
#78. In reality, a minimalist is simply someone who tries to live simply. A minimalist is someone who doesn't want clutter in their homes or their lives, someone who makes an effort to keep their home simple, and someone who realizes that there is more to life than accumulating "stuff.
Beth Jones
#79. Clutter is nothing more than a series of deferred decisions stacked on top of each other.
Andrew Mellen
#80. If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!
Donna Smallin
#81. When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.
Michael Kitson
#82. I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
Brian Greene
#83. A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
Barbara Corcoran
#84. Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#85. Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
Karen Kingston
#86. I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.
Simon Cowell
#87. Hey Audrey,I am watching you de-clutter your house,do you need help?
Toni Aleo
#88. Learning to prioritize is the secret to annihilating clutter.
Geralin Thomas
#89. To the extent that clutter gets in the way of living in the kind of environment we'd like to be living in and leaves us feeling stressed or remiss, we can all improve our relationships to our possessions.
Robin Zasio
#90. Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne Lamott
#91. The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.
Max Lucado
#92. The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.
Jasper Fforde
#93. How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.
Robert Breault
#94. Only when we acknowledge ourselves as we really are can we begin to take inventory of the physical, mental, and emotional clutter that no longer serves us. Then we can choose to no longer judge ourselves for what we've become and focus on who we'd like to be.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#95. Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
Wendell Berry
#96. More voices means less trust in any given voice.
Eli Pariser
#97. Good spending decisions are made when we know we're spending money, not fooled into thinking we're saving money. --pg 52
Cristin Frank
#98. In the same way a cluttered room becomes difficult to walk, a cluttered mind becomes difficult to think. Meditation is simply a daily housekeeping practice; therefore, put the thoughts away where they belong, take out the unwanted clutter, and relax in the space you created.
Jenna Alatari
#99. When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?
Trent Reznor
#100. I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
Albert Einstein
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