Organize Quotes
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The purpose of this book is to discuss and present evidence for the general thesis that the flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.
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The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
john quincy adams— "Society and Civilization" in the American Review (July 1845).
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.
elizabeth hardwick— "Katherine Anne Porter" (p. 299)
C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.
prince— Sexuality
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.
— Kenneth Boulding (1956) "General systems theory - the skeleton of science" in: Management Science, Vol.2. No. 3. (April 1956) p.197: Opening sentences
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
Friedrich Engels— 1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.
We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole ... But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.
Paul Klee— Statement of 1917, as quoted in Teaching at the Bauhaus (2000) by Rainer Wick and Gabriele Diana Grawe, p. 231
It has always been our deep conviction, and we have always stressed the fact that the only solution for Afghanistan is democracy through elections. Each individual must have the right to vote. The day we will be in Kabul, we will organize elections under the auspices of international organizations.
ahmad shah massoud— Meeting with European legislators (11 June 2000)
The enemy's new strategy is to finance and organize various groups under the cover of women's or student movements.
gholam hossein mohseni-ejehei— Women bear brunt of crackdown on civil liberties in Iran April 26, 2007
Jimmy's one helluva nice guy, ... but let's face it. He couldn't organize a one-car funeral.
jimmy quillen— U.S. House Rules Committee member working with Quillen.
— "Qullen more powerful at home than in D.C.". p. 8. Kingsport Times-News. 1992-10-04.
It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.
joan robinson— Chapter 15, 'Imperfect Competition' Revisited, p. 167
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.
kenneth boulding— "General systems theory - the skeleton of science" in: Management Science, Vol. 2, No. 3. (April 1956) p. 197: Opening sentences.
Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message
kenneth boulding— Attributed to Boulding (1976) in John T. Partington, Terry Orlick, John H. Salmela (1982) Sport in perspective. p.94
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
anthony de mello— Thought
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) – the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable – with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.
jean dubuffet— Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. II, Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris 1967, p. 116
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.
paulo freire— Pedagogia do oprimido [Translation: Pedagogy of the Oppressed] (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, on organization.
I thought I could organize freedom How Scandinavian of me
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Hunter" (Homogenic; 1997)
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.
friedrich hayek— "general principles which are always the same" is a quote of Adam Smith in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them.
mitt romney— Speech at the Opening Ceremonies at the 2002 Winter Olympics, quoted in Montanaro, Domenico (July 23, 2012). "Romney to Olympians: 'You didn't get here solely on your own'". NBC News. Retrieved on 2012-07-24.
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
neal stephenson— Neal Stephenson coins the term "text literacy" during interview for the article "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines," Associated Press, May 10, 1995
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
We have been determined .:;.:;. to so organize the peace-loving nations that they may through unity of desire, unity of will, and unity of strength be in position to assure that no other would-be aggressor or conqueror shall even get started. That is why from the very beginning of the war , and paralleling our military plans, we have begun to lay the foundations for the general organization for the maintenance of peace and security .
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, declared in 1944 the president of the United States. Quoted in the article Peace and Security—The Hope, in The Watchtower, October 1, 1985.
Don't waste any time mourning organize!
— Joe Hill, letter to William D. Haywood (November 18, 1915); reported in Philip S. Foner, The Letters of Joe Hill (1965), p. 84. Written while Hill was awaiting execution for a murder for which it was widely believed the evidence had been fabricated.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
paulo freire— Pedagogia do oprimido [Translation: Pedagogy of the Oppressed] (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, on organization.
To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control.
— Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Gerald A. Cole (2003) Management theory and practice. p.6
Do you know what I admire most in the world? The inability of force to organize anything. There are only two powers in this world, the sword and the spirit ... in the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
— As quoted in "French Literature" by William Koren, in Modern Language Notes, Vol. XX, No. 3, (March 1905), p.97
Anarchy means an absence of law. Sociologically it is the modern theory which proposes to do away with all existing forms of government and to organize a society which will exercise all its functions without any controlling or directive authority.
— The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907)
?Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
brian eno— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (1995), p. 272, ISBN 0571179959
