Garry Winogrand Quotes

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

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

I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

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.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

I'm a mess. My house is full of records, and my computer... I can't find the things that I want. But it usually seems to work out.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they're often just as organized as the people who file things.