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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

Charles Lamb

Work, Holiday, Dry

Charles Lamb (1860). “The Works of Charles Lamb ...”, p.385

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I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

George Washington Carver

Writing, Science, Glasses

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Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

Bruce Schneier

Locks, Information, Rooms

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Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No.

Rainbow Rowell

Sleep, Sitting, Awake

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.286, St. Martin's Griffin

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I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Whitley Strieber

Christmas, Writing, Years

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God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

K.P. Yohannan

Airplane, Self, People

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Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

Gary Lutz

Might, Matter, Wheels

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You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

Linda Fairstein

Writing, Machines, Stories

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Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Stephen Fry

Children, Wall, Knowledge

"This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2005.

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make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hate, Writing, Men

"At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 52, 1967.

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If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Criticism, Would Be

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.85, Beacon Press

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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Zhuangzi

Giving, Tree, Heaven

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Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

Brian Kernighan

Sorry, Learning, Mind

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At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

Nicholas Blincoe

Book, Heart, Our World

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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Robert Bloch

Children, Crazy, Heart

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I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Jean Sibelius

Sleep, Horizon, Orchestra

Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943.

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To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Ingvar Kamprad

Ikea, Design, Cost

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I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

Haruki Murakami

Morning, Writing, Thinking

Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.77, Random House

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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

Stewart O'Nan

Writing, Character, Trying

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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut

America, Library, Libraries And Librarians

Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.103, Dial Press

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Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Suicide, Photograph, Favourite

"Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.

Patricia Aburdene

Heart, Differences, Champion

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Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate® exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout.

Maureen Lipman

Workout, Exercise, Training

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I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

Ingvar Kamprad

Office, Rooms, Collaborators

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How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

Haruki Murakami

Writing, Letters, Able

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.112, Random House

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