Top 100 Quotes About Clutter
#1. The Windowsill Over the Sink
[...] begins to crowd around you
with its clutter showing you that
you can keep everything but promises.
Vern Rutsala
#2. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Wes Fesler
#3. Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.
Carmine Gallo
#5. Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
Jack Welch
#6. Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.
Lloyd Jones
#7. The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!
Seth Godin
#8. The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.
Bryant McGill
#9. Already a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.
J.G. Ballard
#10. For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
Jack Welch
#11. WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?
Napoleon Hill
#12. To be a successful team leader, one has to stay back after the din and clutter of a working day to emerge better-equipped and ready to face a new day.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#13. Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk clutter to the first annual writer's award for dry humor.
Jarod Kintz
#14. Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
Steve Wynn
#15. Keep the things that add value to your life. If the item does not add value to your life, it is just clutter and needs to be cleared from your space.
Dub Haynes
#16. Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five ...
Richard Russo
#17. Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
#18. Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.
Karen Kingston
#19. The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
Gretchen Rubin
#20. Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.
Howard Mittelmark
#21. Trophies are clutter at best, and weapons at worst. I prefer my awards heavy and with handles.
Jarod Kintz
#22. Where there is motion, there is no procrastination. Where there is no procrastination, there is no clutter.
Anna Femming
#23. Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#24. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
Douglas Rushkoff
#25. Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life.
Mary Randolph
#26. To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.
Joan D. Chittister
#27. Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.
Jean Chatzky
#28. I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.
William Zinsser
#29. There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#30. It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.
Michael Chabon
#31. As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge.
Anonymous
#32. The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
Anne Lamott
#33. You cannot truly love yourself if you are constantly surrounded by clutter, chaos and bitterness. The time has come for you to de-clutter your mind and your environment.
Winsome Campbell-Green
#34. I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
Truman Capote
#35. Clutter is knowing all of the things that you absorb through your fashion magazines. Clutter is knowing which celebrities broke up with whom and why.
Emily Giffin
#36. Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.
Denise Linn
#37. The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.
Karen Kingston
#38. It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
Alice Walker
#39. One day she told the class, 'Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.'
Truman Capote
#40. Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.
Fennel Hudson
#42. The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells
Ed Zern
#43. I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.
Frederick Lenz
#44. There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions ...
Tim Ferriss
#45. All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ...
William Boyd
#46. On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
Julie Andrews
#47. What kind of damage is done to our ability to love or understand and thus fully judge one another when daily we're encouraged to forget that people are people and view them instead as so much pasteboard, scenery, clutter, generalized instances (of murder, of rape, of embezzlement, etc.)?
Charles D'Ambrosio
#48. you clutter my mind
thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you
thoughts that keep me from rest
that ull me to sleep at night
your words are like butter
they're smooth and they're rich
and they make the bitter bits better
Madisen Kuhn
#50. a clutter of toys and materials actually makes for less play - it's all too much choice. If
Steve Biddulph
#51. It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.
Larry Merchant
#53. If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough
#54. Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.
Nick Saban
#55. Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future
Dan Simmons
#56. We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas ... As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.
Thomas Keating
#57. Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
P. J. O'Rourke
#58. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.
Annette Vaillancourt
#59. Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it's about creating a clearing. It's opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.
Brene Brown
#60. What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Richard Dawkins
#61. Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.
Karen Kingston
#62. I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart
Nikki Giovanni
#63. It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways ...
Lawren Harris
#64. This is what I term a reduction lifestyle - reduce excessive consumption, unnecessary obligations, and overbearing clutter. When
Cristin Frank
#65. I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#66. We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
Cynthia Moss
#67. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.
Karen Kingston
#68. We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.
Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
#69. Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could ... when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.
Isabel Allende
#70. Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design ... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
Edward Tufte
#71. If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.
Geraldine Brooks
#72. Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
William Zinsser
#73. To have a flexible, open, clean mind, you have to do three things: exercise it, accept new ideas, clear out the clutter. Be willing to change your mind when it needs changing.
Toni Sorenson
#74. But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
Elizabeth Peters
#75. Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.
Joyce Meyer
#76. First things first: A clean house simply looks better than a messy house. A room where everything has its place is nicer than a room filled with chaotic stacks and clutter. If you want your house to look nicer and have a better ambiance, the first and simplest thing you can do is to clean.
Katie Sawyer
#77. Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained when they vanished, that only catastrophe made notable?
Marilynne Robinson
#78. The study showed that physical clutter in your surroundings competes for your attention, resulting in decreased performance and increased stress. In other words, clutter in your surroundings correlates to clutter in your mind.
Eileen Rose Giadone
#80. I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
Alexa Von Tobel
#81. I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.
Janny Wurts
#82. Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.
Charlie Munger
#84. Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.
Geralin Thomas
#85. Sherlock: If the occasional pile of clutter offends you, by all means move it.
John: Last time I tried that I was bitten by a large spider you appeared to be using as a bookmark.
Guy Adams
#86. I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.
Solange Knowles
#87. For me, minimalism is about getting rid of unnecessary clutter (in all areas of life!), organizing what is left, and living in a peaceful, contented state, devoid of the extra stress that too much baggage brings to your life.
Kristen D. Smith
#88. Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong. Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
Marie Kondo
#89. A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
Neal Stephenson
#90. Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.
Baker Brownell
#91. What steps can I take to
reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?
Douglas Bloch
#92. As parents we also define ourselves by what we bring our attention and presence to. This is easy to forget when daily life feels more like triage. By eliminating some of the clutter in our lives we can concentrate on what we really value, not just what we're buried under, or deluged with.
Kim John Payne
#93. Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
Suze Orman
#94. When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.
Pippa Middleton
#96. Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.
Truman Capote
#97. Once your life is clutter-free, literally and metaphorically, you will feel less stressed and your life will have more room for happiness.
Jamie Becker
#98. It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.
Perry Anderson
#99. When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
Julia Cameron
#100. Wherever the Lord makes a provision, we are quite sure that there was a need for it. No superfluities clutter the covenant of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
