Quotes About Organizing

#1. We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

Cesar Chavez

#2. Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans.

Rashers Tierney

#3. It's no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn't agree.

Marty Rubin

#4. One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

Noam Chomsky

#5. The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

Fritjof Capra

#6. The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Marianne Williamson

#7. Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

Erwin McManus

#8. There is more power in starting your story from a little concept that we call the Organizing Idea, an idea that is an active expression meant to inspire experiences, not a brand statement.

Gaston Legorburu

#9. A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

Warren Farrell

#10. There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Joanne Woodward

#11. I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

Harry Hay

#12. We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

Clay Shirky

#13. Eat in a way that is relaxing and brings you joy. It doesn't take too much organizing and the results are profound.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. Organizing is providing people with the opportunity to become aware of their own capabilities and potential.

Fred Ross

#15. You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

Dorothy Day

#16. Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizing his surroundings and thus appropriating his actions.

Jean Baudrillard

#17. Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.

James W. Pennebaker

#18. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

Bill Walsh

#19. Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Neil Gaiman

#20. First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

T.F. Hodge

#21. ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most.

Roseanne Barr

#22. I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#23. I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.

Andy Kindler

#24. People go on blithely organizing and believing in the remedy of mass action, without the least consciousness of the fact that the most powerful organizations can be maintained only by the greatest ruthlessness of their leaders and the cheapest of slogans.

C. G. Jung

#25. Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#26. I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.

Mike Scully

#27. Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

George Weigel

#28. I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Angela Davis

#29. The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

John Mackey

#30. Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility ... Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Susan Sontag

#31. Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

James P. Hoffa

#32. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it
is a wonder beyond words.

Joanna Macy

#33. Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

Michael Bloomberg

#34. So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

John F. Kennedy

#35. The view that all aspects of reality can be reduced to matter and its various particles is, to my mind, as much a metaphysical position as the view that an organizing intelligence created and controls reality.

Dalai Lama XIV

#36. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.

Bill Maris

#37. The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

Jayma Mays

#38. And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

Frederic Bastiat

#39. I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

Marina Warner

#40. When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

#41. [Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

Jeb Bush

#42. For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Eric C. Anderson

#43. Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

Jane Swisshelm

#44. One of these people - a Canadian, of all things - stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.

Michael Lewis

#45. The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields ... : The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

Rupert Sheldrake

#46. Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

Stephen Covey

#47. The story, and the conviction it carries, are part of the teller's way of organizing his own life.

Tim Parks

#48. It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Gloria Steinem

#49. I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

Haile Gerima

#50. The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Martin Van Buren

#51. We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

Deepak Chopra

#52. Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.

Ben Ehrenreich

#53. I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

Terry Tempest Williams

#54. Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Victor Ponta

#55. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Anne Burrell

#57. The guy was cracking down on the Brotherhood, organizing shifts, trying to turn four loose cannons like V, Phury, Rhage, and Z into soldiers. No wonder he always looked like his head hurt.

J.R. Ward

#58. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Elliott Erwitt

#59. After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.

Cory Booker

#60. Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Deepak Chopra

#61. The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

Eliot Spitzer

#62. May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

Florence Nightingale

#63. Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may well become the place of collective organizing, the common ground, the issue that unites all women.

Bell Hooks

#64. In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

#65. In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Cynthia Payne

#66. Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.

David Foenkinos

#67. We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Marianne Williamson

#68. Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#69. I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

Mitch Kapor

#70. The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

Lillian Wald

#71. Many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see other things that are easier. But if you are willing to give the time and make the sacrifice, it's not that difficult to organize.

Cesar Chavez

#72. How do we not have money? This is a country of organizations. Everywhere you look people are organizing themselves into groups, one joining many and many morphing into one. They have money, let's have at some of it.

Sergio De La Pava

#73. 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

#74. Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

David Pietrusza

#75. Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control - they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

Jim Highsmith

#76. I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Ira Glass

#77. I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

Taylor Swift

#78. 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

R.C. Sproul

#79. I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

Benjamin Carson

#80. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Henry David Thoreau

#81. The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Johannes P. Muller

#82. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Dolores Huerta

#83. Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband's client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.

Sophie Kinsella

#84. (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section)
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

#85. Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

Cesar Chavez

#86. In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

Arthur C. Brooks

#87. It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.

Jan Theuninck

#88. As the American Library Association presciently concluded in their 1989 report Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, students must be taught to play an active role in knowing, identifying, finding, evaluating, organizing, and using information.

Daniel J. Levitin

#89. I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

Ashton Kutcher

#90. Crystals remind us of the structures upon which our universe is built. All matter, everything that is physical and solid, owes its existence to the organizing properties of crystals. Crystals are structures that are formed from a regular repeated pattern of connected atoms or molecules.

H.D. Anyone

#91. Changes like the telephone and telegraphy, which tend to reduce the cost of organizing spatially, will tend to increase the size of the firm.

Ronald Coase

#92. Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

#93. Classification, broadly defined, is the process of organizing knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind.

Lois Mai Chan

#94. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

#95. The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.

Ronald Coase

#96. Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature - to say nothing of killing and dying for them - would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now?

Sam Harris

#97. Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Hillary Clinton

#98. Just organizing your environment can have a calming and stabilizing effect on your mind and reduce your anxiety levels.

Lorna Myers

#99. The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

David D. Aitken

#100. Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer