David Brooks Quotes

I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'

I like being organized and super particular.

I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

For me, I want 10 perfect events.

I like order, structure, and accomplishing goals.

I'm very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I'm obsessive compulsive. I don't mind admitting it.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.