Top 942 Desk Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.
A desk for $350 a month in a common area is not as cheap as a coffee shop. But a lot of people would say they're empowered by that environment in a way that makes it worth it.
I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.
No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.
Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.
'SNL' has changed my career because it gave it a platform to be seen. And I really feel like the Weekend Update desk is where I am given the opportunity to shine on that show.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.
When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.
I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an Amazon return into the day. It's been sitting on my desk for two weeks.
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.
I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.
I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
With tireless hours at your desk or traveling on a plane, it's important that you take time to stay connected to your body.
