The Organized Mind Quotes

#1. The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Daniel J. Levitin

#2. Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

Daniel Gilbert

#3. The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Richie Havens

#4. A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.

Maryrose Wood

#5. The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

El Lissitzky

#6. Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.

Tim Downs

#7. I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

Charlize Theron

#8. To the well organized mind, death is just the beginning of the next adventure.

J.K. Rowling

#9. I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You

J.K. Rowling

#12. No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

Alice Hegan Rice

#13. Love can never be organized;it's the madness encircling it that really makes it what it is. It's only when you try to play with your mind that love starts becoming a burden- because love resides in your heart;it's not to be tampered with the silly thoughts that run in your brain.

Amrit Sinha

#14. Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

Steven Pinker

#15. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Gregory Maguire

#17. Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

#18. To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Richard Dawkins

#19. A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.

Haile Selassie

#20. My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?"
"Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.

Julie Anne Peters

#21. To the highly organized mind, death is just another adventure.
'That's from Harry Potter,' I said. 'Dumbledore said it in the first book.'
'Trust you to know.'" (p. 273).

Molly Harper

#22. My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do not serve me.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

Alan Brien

#24. One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

Aleksandar Hemon

#25. That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Terence McKenna

#26. Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

Andre Maurois

#27. A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William Safire