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Arranging Quotes

Putting the pieces where they belong.

These arranging quotes contrast management's focus on arranging and telling with leadership's focus on nurturing people. See our Being quotes for related reflections.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Quotes by Adam Savage

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which...

Quotes by A. A. Milne

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Quotes by Tom Peters

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

Quotes by Sparky Anderson

Always Quotes

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Quotes by Ronald Fisher

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Quotes by Max Frisch

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Quotes by Max Frisch

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Quotes by Maureen Forrester

Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

Quotes by Lydia Davis

Being Quotes

I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.

Quotes by Leslie Jamison

Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

Quotes by Laura Moser

Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of...

Quotes by Karen Bender

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging...

Quotes by Jonathan Jackson

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

Conducting Quotes

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and...

Quotes by Joanna Scott

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I...

Quotes by Jason Robert Brown

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

Quotes by Jaimoe

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And...

Quotes by Hamish Bowles

Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I'll just say I'm more of a producer or a composer or songwriter - those are my strongest suits: arranging and composing.

Quotes by Gus Dapperton

Experience Quotes

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the main contrast drawn in arranging quotes?
One draws a clear line between arranging and directing tasks versus nurturing people, framing the two as fundamentally different skills.
Is there a quote about processing a difficult personal experience?
Yes, one describes how putting a painful experience into some kind of shape helps a person understand and eventually share it with others.
Does music come up in this topic?
One reflects on collaborating with respected musicians on a well-known show as a formative creative experience.
Is there a quote about technology and how we experience the world?
Yes, one describes technology as a way of organizing life so that direct experience becomes less necessary.
What topic pairs with arranging quotes?
Our Experience quotes are the closest fit, since more than one entry here is really about processing lived experience.

Others describe arranging a painful experience into something that can finally be shared, and a wry take on technology arranging the world so we barely have to face it. Pair this with our Conducting or Experience quotes.