My grandfather was a Polish Jew and a socialist, and as a youngster he helped to organize special camps to teach agriculture to all the young men that were moving to Israel, where in 1930, they created the first kibbutz.
- Natalie PortmanI`m definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can`t organize. I don`t make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It`s bad, I really need to take control.
- Katie HolmesI`m incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it`s incredible.
- Fiona AppleI spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they`re at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
- Patricia Heaton(regarding his ten-day jail term after his arrest for cannabis possession at Tokyo`s Narita Airport, Jan. 6, 1980) "It was pretty rough. Just a thin mattress on the floor. I had to wash using water from the toilet cistern. I had to share a bath with a bloke who was in for murder. I was afraid to take my suit off in case I got raped. But I`d seen all those prisoner-of-war movies and I knew you had to keep your spirits up. So I`d organize sing-alongs with other prisoners."
- Paul McCartneyIf money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
- Plácido Domingo(Says his favorite part of filmmaking process is:) Editing, because I`m alone and there isn`t the necessity of having to organize so many people. Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
- Sydney PollackIt was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
- Tipper GoreIt`s a balancing act between preserving a neighborhood`s character while fostering growth in the city. Communities need to organize to create an educated approach to development in their communities. And for developers, I hope this will challenge them to ... strive for better quality while listening to the community.
- Christopher JonesIt was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.
- Hermann MaierBecause of the small size of the labor movement and because of the extreme struggle to organize in the state of Arizona, we`re much more close-knit in and outside of the AFL-CIO,
- Michael McGrathIt helps kids organize their thoughts,
- Dave JohnsonLet the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
- John L. LewisThe actors have to know the play because they have to memorize the words. The technicians have to know the play because they have to organize the sound and light cues. But I want to keep myself as virginal as I can. I say, "Tell me what this play is about." I`ll find out as I do it and I`m really looking forward to seeing it. I don`t advise young directors that this is what they should do. This is simply my method.
- Robert AltmanFrom the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
- Cesar ChavezRepudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
- Jean GenetWe will organize the establishment of call centers and begin making assessments as to the needs of their areas as well as to begin coordination for the sending and receiving of volunteers and distribution of relief supplies,
- Jeff ParkerThey still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
- Alan ChristensenI carried on the negotiations with the leaders of the Nazi group at the University, proposing that we should organize a strike of the students.
- Allie HastingsThere is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
- Allison BarberI was trying to figure out what to do next, I`d been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
- Amber HowserI want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
- Amr MussaViolence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women`s lives in our entirety.
- Amr MussaSo it`s a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can`t get media at all to make your case. And that`s where cases tend to be made politically.
- Andi MelendezThey needed a school teacher to organize things,
- Angie LassmanIt`s not the first time they have tried to organize. It`s nothing new. We don`t have unions at Amazon and don`t really need them. Every employee is an owner at Amazon, since they own stock and can exercise their right to raise workplace issues or concerns at any time.
- Ann BarneyWe need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
- Ann HurleyWe respect the right of our employees to organize,
- Anne RoeslerWhat the center will do in pragmatic curricular terms will be to organize, promote and publicize courses that satisfy our land-grant institution`s diversity and international perspective requirements,
- Antonio RobinsonThe 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,
- Arlene RosenthalHome football games can drive me crazy, ... We have to organize every pre- and post-game event, and some can be quite large, like band day this Saturday.
- Arvind SodhaniLisa Rudy worked for us for six months - six to nine months - to organize groundwork for a conference.
- Avianto Nugroho(The accords are voluntary but include firm targets-like increasing renewable energy use to 10 percent within seven years, and reducing per capita water consumption by 10 percent by 2015. Generation Earth, a nonprofit group that worked with ICLEI and U.N. officials to organize the summit, will regularly grade each city`s effort to meet the accords.) There is tremendous power in targets and timetables, ... Even if the same person isn`t there, if you set a goal of 10 percent renewable power within seven years, you can check and see if they`ve achieved it.
- Avner GorenWe`ll have about 2,000 people coming and going from that job site. Being able to organize and manage people and information in such a compressed time schedule is a challenge. It`s moving people and materials and coordinating them in such a way that you can still build the house. It`s a lot of logistics in addition to the construction.
- Barmak NassirianWe choose to go...not because (it is) easy, but because (it is) hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy