Welcome to our collection of insightful and inspiring quotes on the topic of lists. Lists play a significant role in our lives, helping us organize our thoughts, tasks, and goals. Whether it’s a to-do list for the day, a grocery list, or a list of goals for the year, these lists serve as valuable tools for productivity and focus. In this compilation, we have gathered a diverse range of quotes that explore the significance and power of lists from various perspectives. Whether you’re seeking motivation, guidance, or simply a new perspective on lists, you’ll find a wealth of wisdom and inspiration here.
As you explore these quotes, feel free to use them in your projects and creative endeavors. Whether you want to incorporate them into an image, share them on social media, or simply enjoy their wisdom, these quotes can be a valuable resource. You can even enhance them with stylish fonts to make them visually appealing. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of quotes about lists and discover the wisdom they hold.
Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. Marianne Williamson
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene – chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It’s my favorite time of the process. Eric Stoltz
I’m a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I’m always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips. Heidi Klum
One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead. Taylor Swift
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity. Brendon Burchard
I don’t let my picture be taken. I’m on too many hit lists. Jack Chick
Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don’t get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way. Caroline Ghosn
Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There’s a reason our religious books aren’t simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don’t remember lists of facts. Kameron Hurley
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences. Glenn Greenwald
In the case of ‘Goon Squad,’ which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those ‘best of 2010’ lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell. Jennifer Egan
I’ve interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I’ve had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. Tom Brokaw
I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, ‘What?’ Lisa Marie Presley
There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don’t have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists. Oxana Chusovitina
Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud. Julius Genachowski
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn’t stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. Bernard Cornwell
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. Joseph Heller
I’m obsessed with making lists. Rachel Nichols
I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, ‘I could put this guitar on this track…’ and so on. Steve Vai
One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I’m very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably. John Hodgman
I’ve been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there’s some truth in that. Yotam Ottolenghi
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Alice Morse Earle
‘Grand Illusion’ and ‘Rules of the Game’ are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. Roger Ebert
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun. Margaret Haddix
Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority. Marcy Kaptur
I’m controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I’m difficult on every single level. Sandra Bullock
Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection. Asa Hutchinson
Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg’s last birthday party. Nish Kumar
First, I’d become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. Carl Wilson
We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out. Evan Spiegel
Lists have always implied social order. David Viscott
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas.’ Elif Batuman
Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren’t perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists ‘tomato’ as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce. Giada De Laurentiis
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making. Ben Stein
I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say. Nina Dobrev
Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia – even during times of stress and fatigue. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice. Martin Amis
The problem with rich lists is… it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it. Felix Dennis
I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. Nina Dobrev
The difference between ‘Molto Italiano’ and ‘The Babbo Cookbook’ is that the ingredient lists in ‘Molto’ are about half or even a third the size. In ‘Babbo,’ they are very long, they are very real. That’s exactly how we make them in the restaurant. Mario Batali
Value will always be on top of everyone’s lists now, right along with safety. David Neeleman
AIM was so quaint, it organized users around ‘buddy lists.’ In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers. Adam Lashinsky
I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don’t dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists. Harold Ford, Jr.
I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in ‘Love Is Hell,’ where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like ‘The Nine Types of Boyfriends,’ ‘Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,’ ‘Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,’ and other arbitrarily numbered lists. Matt Groening
Lists are how I parse and manage the world. Adam Savage
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, ‘hits.’ What’s commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can’t break in. Michael Eric Dyson
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. Annalena McAfee
I’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 Holmes
The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. Edward Snowden
For many years, I tried to make New Year’s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. Henry Rollins
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with. Alan Parker
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves. Douglas Rushkoff
IMDb only lists specific projects. It doesn’t list theater, commercial, and most non-union work. You also have to pay to upload your reel to most sites, and some places still make you walk your DVD into their physical location. Janina Gavankar
I’m busier than I’ve ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear. Chris Hemsworth
Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn’t run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain. Allison Pearson
I have always had a strange relationship to Portland, Oregon. It’s a great city. The people who live there love it openly and loudly, and it regularly appears on the lists of best American cities. But something has always felt weird to me about Portland. And not in the way Portlanders mean ‘weird’ in their slogan ‘Keep Portland weird.’ W. Kamau Bell
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Joan D. Vinge
As is well known, ‘McCarthyism’ was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. M. Stanton Evans
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time. David Viscott
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies’ priority lists. Shawn Achor
Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, ‘Smile more,’ or, ‘Be stronger – remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.’ This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking. Peter Morgan
A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, ‘Maybe it wasn’t so great.’ Viggo Mortensen
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! Anna Seward
I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. David Byrne
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels. Ashwin Sanghi
I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can’t stick to any of them. Freema Agyeman
I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name. Joe Mansueto
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards. Charles J. Shields
My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine. Alison Sweeney
I’ve learned to look like I’m listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I’m actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. Patricia Heaton
I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. Bill Gates
Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists. Naguib Sawiris
I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track. Kiana Tom
I like lists, I’m controlling, I like order. I’m difficult on every level. Sandra Bullock
I’m on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around. Suranne Jones
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten. Mary Roach
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. H. Allen Smith
For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia’s mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis. Evgeny Morozov
Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path. Richard Branson
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. Charles Van Doren
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like ‘Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.’ David Viscott
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke. Louie Gohmert
I love making lists. J. Courtney Sullivan
It’s the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. Arthur Smith
Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk. Jeff Lindsay
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don’t take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. ‘Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read ‘Little House on the Prairie’ when he was in third grade. Jon Scieszka
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment. David Viscott
When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick’s Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists. Greg Fitzsimmons
Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything – look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘Glamorama.’ Peter York
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s a very important part of my personal discipline. Bob Graham
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected. Marilyn French
‘TMZ’ has the cash to buy off valets and info like flight lists or even the limo list of what celeb is being picked up where and when. Stephen Rodrick
Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. Russell Banks
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat. Billie Joe Armstrong
On the strength of Vonnegut’s reputation, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money. Charles J. Shields
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It’s like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. LZ Granderson
We like lists because we don’t want to die. Umberto Eco
Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Eileen Myles
You see these casting directors’ lists of characters, and they’re all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you’re the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you’re positively elderly. Thandie Newton
What lists and awards don’t measure – and I feel this strongly – is the lasting value of any work of art. They’re a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context. Jennifer Egan
If you’re like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I’ll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you’re doing. Jeff Bridges
