Top 473 Organizing Quotes & Sayings

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

Avoid organizing investment team into silos.

Reminding is the essence of organizing.

It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

Organizing time is exactly like organizing space. Just as a closet is a limited amount of space into which you must fit a certain number of objects, a schedule is a limited space into which you must fit a certain number of tasks. Each day and each week is simply a container, a storage unit with a definite capacity. The trick is to treat time not as an abstraction but as something solid that you can hold on to and move around.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.

The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.

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

The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.

Life in America is nothing but struggle, you gotta continue to try to overcome. Keep organizing, Obama said, keep organizing, grab a clipboard, get your signatures and start protesting, run for office yourself, but the shtruggle, the shtruggle is what defines us and we must continue with the shtruggle. Just pathetic, folks, the whole thing is pathetic.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

The world is not self-organizing.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

I do a lot of cleaning and organizing of the house, and I'm also a big TV and movie buff.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

Film production is not rocket science. It's about organizing resources and pooling in funds.

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.

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

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

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

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

Placemaking is community organizing. It's a campaign.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.