Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

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… — Maureen Lipman
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… — Patricia Aburdene
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
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,… — Stewart O'Nan
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… — Haruki Murakami
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. — Harry S. Truman
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes… — Barry S. Strauss
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… — Madeleine Stowe
The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have… — Charles Krauthammer
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk. — Wilferd Peterson
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in… — Mark Twain
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… — Dave Barry
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I… — Etty Hillesum
One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find… — Chris Hadfield
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the… — Ed Bradley
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I… — Gretchen Rubin
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences.… — John Banville
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket. — Paul Saffo
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in… — Ramona Koval
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much… — Douglas Adams
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the… — Erica Jong
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the… — Antoine Lavoisier

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