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I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives… — Kurt Vonnegut
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
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the… — Josh Ritter
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer… — Markus Zusak
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen.… — Joanna Lumley
Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer. — Emily Henderson
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of… — Katie Hopkins
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. — Jenny Offill
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not… — Leonid Brezhnev
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop… — Kary Mullis
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of… — Norman Lear

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