Disorganized Quotes

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

  Larry Winget

  Mean, Environment, Habit

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.84, Penguin

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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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• 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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• I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Practice, Astonishment, Disorder

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2005.

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wise, Country, Party

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• Strangely enough, I find myself more centered in chaos than in calm, and again I'm not sure whether that's a strength or says something weird about me, but I love a crisis. I'm normally very, very organized in the middle of chaos, and then when I have nothing to focus on, extremely disorganized, and I tend to waste a lot of time.

  Grant Bowler

  Focus, Waste, Calm

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

  Matt Taibbi

  Integrity, Greed, Democracy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

  Georgina Chapman

  Messy, Persons

  "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about

  John Green

  Couple, Years, Names

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin UK

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• There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Military, Home, People

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Kings, Dark

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• But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

  Tim Ferriss

  Average, People, Stronger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

  Roberto Baggio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

  Eleanor Antin

  Black, Information, Void

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• If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

  Kerry Thornley

  Weed, Marijuana, Religion

  The Introduction to the 5th Edition of "Principia Discordia" by Kerry Thornley, 1963.

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• Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mother, Book, Fate

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

  Hoda Kotb

  Christmas, Ornaments, Purses

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• I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

  Paula Deen

  Cooks, Mess, Knows

  "Hey, Y'all, I Need Some Help!". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Loss, Men

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.55, Casemate Publishers

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• I'm too disorganized.

  Rachel Weisz

  "Rachel Weisz Interview AGORA: The Oscar-Winning Star gets Deep about Religion, Movie Blogs and her Desire to be in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK Sequel". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Chaos, Organized

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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