Disorganization Quotes

• Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Failing, Efficiency, Results

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Organization, Would Be, Literature

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• Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hands, Organization, Genius

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

  Wilson Follett

  Writing, Language, Looseness

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• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Depressing, Struggle, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

  A. A. Milne

  Discovery, Joy, Piglet

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• Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it

  David Brooks

  Country, Order, Accomplishment

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• When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Adversity, Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

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• Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Thanks, Computer, States

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• The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Organization, Community

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• In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

  David Neeleman

  Creativity, Brain, Chaos

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• If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• O heart, such disorganization!

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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• In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and be as well-organized as they are. This does not come natural to us more intellectual types, as we tend to be averse to hierarchy and groupthink; we don't like to be part of anything like a disciplined and well-organized team or movement. But the alternative is to continue losing politically - which means continued failure to protect the world's poor, who are really bearing the brunt of our disorganization.

  Thomas Pogge

  Powerful, Team, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

  Anthony Storr

  Order, Adults, Needs

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Clever, Sacrifice

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order. Now these are the same scientists that go around touting the second law of thermodynamics, which is entropy, which says that things move toward a state of disorganization.

  Benjamin Carson

  Moving, Mean, Order

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Disease, Orderliness, Dirt

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• The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Weapons, Used

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.

  Norbert Wiener

  Organization, Giving, Example

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Media, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

  David Wain

  Summer, Maine, Camps

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