91 Clutter Quotes
Following is our list of clutter quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about mind clutter.
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Famous Clutter Quotes
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. — Eleanor Brown
Clutter is a manifestation of a) holding onto the past and b) fear of what might happen in the future. — Leo Babauta
Cluttered minds might seek external organization — Gary Brecka
Out of clutter, find simplicity. — Albert Einstein
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter. — Jonathan Ive
Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. — Maggie Stiefvater
When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you. — Michael Kitson
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. — Wendell Berry
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds — Thomas Merton
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? — Albert Einstein
A multitude of books distracts the mind. — Socrates
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. — Peace Pilgrim
When you access and evaluate your goals, you will uncluttered your life of the unnecessary. — Mike Murdock
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment. — Charles Handy
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life. — Jerry Garcia
Short Clutter Quotes
- My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure. — Judy Gold
- Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. — Sayings
- Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar. — Judith Orloff
- Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. — Edward Tufte
- I don't like hype cluttering art. — Skrillex
- I have no time to be in a hurry. — Henry David Thoreau
- Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. — Denise Linn
- If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. — Harold Geneen
- I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character. — Martha Plimpton
- If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? — Laurence J. Peter
Clear The Clutter Quotes
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. — Thomas Keating
The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too. — Karen Kingston
Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want. — Karen Kingston
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. — Julia Cameron
It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come. — Alice Walker
Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head. — Chris Rock
Mind Clutter Quotes
I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters. — Rod McKuen
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways. — Lawren Harris
I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men. — Paul Krugman
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes. — Albert Einstein
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered. — Richard M. Nixon
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — Eric Butterworth
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean? — Unknown
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style. — Leonard Cohen
Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind. — Louise Hay
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires. — Marya Mannes
Declutter Quotes
We saw incremental improvements in usage as we decluttered the site. — Cliff Lerner
Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year. — Marie Kondo
The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear. — Marie Kondo
Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many? — Deniece Schofield
Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap? — Sophie Kinsella
People Writing About Clutter
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Albert Einstein |
1931 | 58682 |
 Eleanor Brown |
15 | 150 |
 Gary Brecka |
100 | 1 |
 Jonathan Ive |
79 | 279 |
 Maggie Stiefvater |
655 | 1146 |
 Wendell Berry |
487 | 3716 |
More Clutter Quotes
Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change. — Nick Saban
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat. — James Clear
What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God? — Richard Dawkins
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive. — Dean Potter
I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God? — Lester Roloff
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another. — A.S.A. Harrison
There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you. — Mike Yaconelli
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding. — Edward Tufte
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. — J. D. Salinger
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. — Julie Andrews
I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated. — Chely Wright
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose. — Charles Fourier
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever. — Christine Caine
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) — Victoria Moran
There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise. — George Takei
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. — Bruce Lee
Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get. — Karen Kingston
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. — Edward Tufte
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need. — Helen Dunmore
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. — Jonathan Ive
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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