Organized Mind Quotes

• As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wisdom, Money, Two

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• I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

  Jann Wenner

  Freak, Desks, Neat

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• 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 Levitin

  Brain, Principles, Fundamentals

  "The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload". Book by Daniel Levitin, 2014.

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

  Alan Brien

  Country, Fashion, Neat And Tidy

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Real, Believe

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Atheism

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• 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

  Smart, Important, Pages

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• 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

  Heaven, Gears, Music Is

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• 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

  Jobs, Book, Kids

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