Quotes About Orderliness

#1. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Neville Cardus

#2. The heavy odds against finding the desired ... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

Janet Malcolm

#3. All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms.

Erwin Schrodinger

#4. Orderliness needs to be mixed with a dose of reasonable disorder.

Vadim Zeland

#5. Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.

Lionel Shriver

#7. Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. To postulate a trillion-trillion other universes, rather than one God, in order to explain the orderliness of our universe, seems the height of irrationality.

John C. Lennox

#9. As to behavior, the leader must be respectable. A well-ordered life is the fruit of a well-ordered mind. The life of the leader should reflect the beauty and orderliness of God.

J. Oswald Sanders

#10. Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

Karl E. Weick

#11. There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#13. A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Neville Cardus

#14. You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.

David Leavitt

#15. When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

Mary Oliver

#16. If I could, I'd take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France and the orderliness of Germany, the cinematic and literary wit of Britain, and blend it into one utopian, and ultimately dystopian, probably, civilization.

Tsh Oxenreider

#17. The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

William Strunk Jr.

#19. I now knew a method of speaking and writing that - by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn't supposed to fail - sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.

Elena Ferrante

#20. The reason for this is, that what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness.

Erwin Schrodinger

#21. B.C.) - Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one's personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature.

Marcus Aurelius

#22. The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

Rudolf Arnheim

#23. The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Katherine Paterson

#24. [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

Erwin Schrodinger

#25. Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

William Faulkner

#26. Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

Marie-Luise Gothein

#27. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Ajahn Amaro

#28. I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.

Sherwood Anderson

#29. Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

Albert Einstein

#30. Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Deepak Chopra

#31. When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

Johannes Kepler

#32. It is as though God said, You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#33. feeling free never breaks the law but, you shall never be free when you break the law whilst feeling free!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#34. We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Cheryl Mendelson

#35. It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Michel De Montaigne