Quotes About Organized Life

#1. It was now Oliver's staunch belief that ladies - more specifically, Miss Harriet Peabody - had been put on the earth in order to create havoc with his well-organized life.

Jen Turano

#2. Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#3. Engineered genes don't play by the rules that have organized life for three billion years (or, if you prefer, 4,004). And in this case, winning means loser takes all.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Will Durant

#5. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H.G.Wells

#6. Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude.

Joanna Russ

#7. So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

John Shelby Spong

#8. What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

Gary Hamel

#9. I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

Brooke Burke

#10. My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

David Wenham

#11. You don't have to be perfect to be organized.

Monika Kristofferson

#12. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

Albert J. Nock

#14. Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

John L. Lewis

#16. In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.

Misty Copeland

#17. The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Jude Bijou

#18. Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

Grace Paley

#19. Life is simply a particular state of organized instability.

Addy Pross

#20. I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#21. All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Sigmund Freud

#22. Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

Clayton Christensen

#23. Life is too short to be organized

Kendall Schmidt

#24. Being organized is not about being company-ready 24/7. It's about being able to find what you need and restore order quickly.

Monika Kristofferson

#25. When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Ron Wyden

#26. A home for everything, and like goes with like....If you consistently apply [this principle] all over your life, your life will be and remain organized.

Tim Challies

#27. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity.

Jessie Fuller

#29. I'd send Eleanor a dignified note. Then I'd have to fall out of love with her. That was the rough part. Everything in life is organized around people falling in love with each other. Falling is easy; but no one tells you how to fall out of love. I didn't know where to begin.

Hanif Kureishi

#30. In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

Paul Ryan

#31. I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit ... it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Uwem Akpan

#32. Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

Gary Zukav

#33. I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.

Sandra Hochman

#34. The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

Anne Graham Lotz

#35. Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

John Green

#36. Make the most of online banking to make your life easier and keep your finances organized. Online banking is great because it offers quick, easy, 24-hour access to your checking and savings accounts.

Alexa Von Tobel

#37. Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Joyce Meyer

#38. I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.'
'That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.
'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again.

Terry Pratchett

#39. A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

Joseph Reese Strayer

#40. Chuck Parson walking toward us with some intent. Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from the larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of homicide.

John Green

#41. Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.

Charlie Pierce

#42. I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

Jane Seymour

#43. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.

Don DeLillo

#44. We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

Paulo Coelho

#45. All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be. - William James

Charles Duhigg

#46. Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Rajneesh

#47. Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.

Richard Rhodes

#48. Life's too short to be organized.

Kendall Schmidt

#49. There should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

Isabella Beeton

#50. This book is about cultivating habits that let you become organized enough to get results for your students and to make your life more fun and less stressful.

Maia Heyck-Merlin

#51. Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Elbert Hubbard

#52. There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving.

Dave Eggers

#53. The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

E. M. Forster

#54. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides,

Oscar Wilde

#55. The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#56. If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Andre Gide

#57. Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

John Bowlby

#58. Life is simply a connect-the dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide.

Jack Canfield

#59. The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Federico Fellini

#61. This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

Belle S. Spafford

#62. All our life," William James told us in the prologue, "so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be."9.29

Charles Duhigg

#63. But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with its well-defined roads to factory and pool-hall, to work and pleasure, both organized, both shells, both a continuation of existence by forced means, in the shadow of life?

Tom McDonough

#64. I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Luke Ford

#65. Politeness is organized indifference.

Paul Valery

#66. One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Robert M. Pirsig

#67. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

#68. No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Diem Brown

#69. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

Bill Nye

#70. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#71. I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

Mark Strong

#72. A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.
They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.

Arthur Rothstein

#73. I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized ... A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

William Carlos Williams

#74. All of us, from cradle to grave, are happiest when life is organized as a series of excursions, long or short, from the secure base provided by our attachment figures.

Anonymous

#75. If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized

Robyn Davidson

#76. The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!

Hubert H. Humphrey

#77. It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world.
-Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

#78. Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Brandon Jenner

#79. However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Havelock Ellis

#80. When the norms that made the old institutions useful began to unwind, and the leaders abandoned their posts, the Roosevelt Republic that had reigned for almost half a century came undone. The void was filled by the default force in American life, organized money.

George Packer

#81. Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

Cindy Crawford

#82. We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

Bernard Baruch

#83. What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#84. If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

Eleanor Clift

#85. For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

Theodore Bikel

#86. A more miserable life is better...believe me..than an existence protected by an organized society...where everything is calculated....where everything is perfect...

Frederico Fellini

#87. The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Alanis Morissette

#88. The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

David Korten

#89. Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

Kendall Schmidt

#90. I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

Michael J. Fox

#91. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

John Taylor Gatto

#92. Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#93. Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.

Dan Rosensweig