Jeff MacNelly Quotes

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

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

I'm a great believer in outlines.

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Honest to God, for me, I've never been a guy to stack projects. A lot of these other guys, they like to do this and then line up what they're doing next and line up what they're doing next. I just can't do it.

The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"