Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I like things in their proper places.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

I can't stand things being out of place.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

I love order and organization.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.