Quotes about Organization

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that the God of Israel is still guiding His people, and that He will continue to be with them, even to the end.46 We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the truth.47

how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Jon and I talked several times on the phone about the state of the Falcons' organization and it became very clear that if I was going to turn this team around, the first step would be to focus on transforming the culture.

One study calculated that people spend 3,680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items, which works out to 150 twenty-four-hour days.

Rather, it provided a literary framework within which the author could effectively express the Hebraic conviction that one God created the world by bringing order out of chaos. He was interested in thematic rather than chronological organization.