Desks Quotes

• If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

  Harold Geneen

  Jobs, Office, Clutter

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• I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

  Lou Gerstner

  Running, Business, Successful

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• I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

  Emma Donoghue

  Children, Hate, Homework

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• No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.

  Pat Falvey

  Tables, Matter, Busy

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• Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

  William Matthews

  Thrive

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• As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Homeland

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• I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

  Kelli Russell Agodon

  Solitude

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• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

  Mark Twain

  Clean Desk, Funny Business, Office Desk

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• When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

  Walt Disney

  Kansas, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

  Len Wein

  Office, Sides, Lenses

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Thank You, Taken, Office

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.148, Carcanet

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• I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society, Different

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

  Tom Peters

  Nuts, Office, Clean Desk

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• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confusion

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 333, 1977.

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• A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

  John le Carre

  Inspirational, Leadership, Reality

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• The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

  Roald Dahl

  Hours, Force, Ifs

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• I plan to die at my desk.

  Don Hewitt

  Office, Plans, Dies

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• It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

  Guy Ritchie

  Fun, Writing, Keyboards

  "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Stories, Noon

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• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Writing, Ideas

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• Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Mother, Baby

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Guitar, Practice

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Stupid, Character, Talking

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• Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

  Annie Dillard

  Gears, Belief, Belts

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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