Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I like things in their proper places.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

People like to pigeonhole you.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Lists have always implied social order.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Lists simplify, clarify, edify.

I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

Order, thou eye of action.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.