Thomas Mann Quotes

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

Lists simplify, clarify, edify.

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.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

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.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

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'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.

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

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

My goal is to simplify complexity.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.