We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

                             —M. C. Escher

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

                            – Pearl S. Buck

When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings… As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

                                 —Anais Nin

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.

                                —Max Frisch

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

                                 —A.A. Milne

One person’s mess is merely another person’s filing system.

                      —Margo Kaufman

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

                         —Havelock Ellis

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

                   —Eleanor Roosevelt

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. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order — willed, faked, and so brought into being.

                            —Anne Dillard

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.

             —Laura Ingalls Wilder

...in all our efforts to provide “advantages” we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

                           –Eda J. LeShan

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

            —Margaret J. Wheatley

Early in my career I felt that organization would destroy my creativity. Whereas now, I feel the opposite. Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.

                           —Verna Gibson

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go till you come to the end; then stop.”

                           —Lewis Carroll